On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:21:37PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: > > > > > create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function > > > (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be > > ecstatic. > > > > Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they are also open > > source. > > > > The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start a lists.l.o > > mailing > > list, we need to make that more obvious. That could fix much of this issue. > > > > Yes, they exist. But to create and maintain a bot, and then teaching people > to use it, and giving permissions to post to given lists of people? It's a > complex structure that does not currently exist and would be *more* work to > administer by hand. > > My point remains. The lists that exist on the wiki now, detract from > volunteering and currently provide no benefit as currently used.
Ok, so the only other option for notification of users are mailing lists. The issue is that the process for creating a list is non-streamlined, and soon we'd have a huge amount of mailing lists at lists.l.o. I think tasklists are good as well (on wiki). -FFM _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar