On 05/02/09 10:39, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>> The core-contrib-discuss email is generated automatically from the 
>> registration database.
>>
>> I think the problem with your email might be that you changed your 
>> list subscriptions but not the email address in your profile which is 
>> what this list would pick up.  Or if you did update your profile, it 
>> didn't get picked up because the list isn't re-generated on an 
>> ongoing basis at the moment.
> My email addr is correct in the profile, but I might not have
> updated until after the list was last generated.
>> If the OGB wants to use this list on an ongoing basis, that's fine.  
>> In the past, it has only been used at election time - hence the 
>> message. If you want to use it on an ongoing basis, you just need to 
>> let the tonic-ops team know that so they can set up a cron job to 
>> re-generate the list at least once a day to pick up changes in status 
>> on a regular basis.
> My impression was that we wanted to do more outreach via this alias
> at more than just election time, but I'll let some of the other
> OGB members pipe up (and since it's Friday night, I imagine most
> are off line ;)
>

hey ...

I don't the OGB policy mail went through to core-contrib-discuss. The 
last mail I got from core-contrib-discus is on March 28 (mine, 
actually). Also, a CC in Advocacy (Max Bruning) said he didn't get the 
mail on core-contrib-discuss either after I forwarded the thread to 
advocacy-discuss. So, I sent a test message to core-contrib-discuss and 
it bounced with the following message (which is different from Valerie's 
bounce):

-----
This list is only in use during the OGB elections period. If you
have a comment or question regarding OpenSolaris governance or 
your current contributor status, please use ogb-discuss.
-----

So, I don't think core-contrib-discuss is live at the moment.

In general, core-contrib-discuss has not been a popular or frequently 
used list, and I think most community Members will balk at the notion of 
using it for communications from the OGB on an ongoing basis -- which is 
an idea I pitched many times before but got shot down just as many times 
so I gave up on it entirely.

The constitution already outlines a clear mechanism to disseminate 
information to the community from the OGB, and that's the Facilitators 
the OGB is supposed to appoint to each CG. That, too, has been somewhat 
unpopular in the past, but I think Michelle's new project will go a long 
way to solving that problem for the OGB. By the way, as a Member of the 
community, I'm fine with core-contrib-discuss being used as a 
communications mechanism from the OGB. I think the list should be 
renamed to members at opensolaris.org, and it should be moderated by the 
OGB secretary for low traffic and critical information delivered to the 
Membership that the Facilitators can then support in the field. It 
shouldn't be a discussion alias. We already have ogb-discus for that.

Jim

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