Olav, That sounds great. I'll volunteer to be the first, as soon as my SVN account request is approved! :)
(Originally requested July 24th (email dropped somehow), re-requested Sept. 4th (got the auto-reply)). -Travis On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 00:18 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Within another project[1], we've starting doing self-introductions. This > is nice as to notice whenever someone joins the project/mailing list. > > An introduction usually contains: > * The persons name > * IRC nick > * City/Country (all fields, but especially this one is of course optional) > * Affiliation (school/company/..) > * What the person wants to help out with > * Historical qualifications (just some background info on e.g. GNOME, > how they started, knowledge of programming/pcs, ...) > * Free for all textfield > > Whenever a new SVN account is created, I want to suggest that the person > introduces themselves on the mailing list. Not sure exactly which one. > For big projects, perhaps the projects mailing list. For translators, > gnome-i18n or the mailing list specific to their language. > > Before I add such a suggestion to the new account introduction email, I > want to ensure that more people think this is a good idea. > > Further, I could even perhaps email some mailing list with all new GNOME > account creations (not right now, but soon with the new Mango system). > But this is perhaps too impersonal (it would contain something like > "$PERSON with userid $UID joined GNOME to work on $MODULES / $LANG"). > > Anyone agree with me? > > > > [1] Bugzilla _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n