Re: GNOME Job Posting Board

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 16 Oct 2008, at 17:18, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> Calum Benson wrote:
> > Any reason you didn't just set up a gnome-jobs mailing list?
>
> 1) Postings on a wiki can be removed, keeping a list of current  
> openings at
> any time,

Ok, I'll concede that advantage, provided people remember to keep it  
up to date :)  One of the number one problems with wikis is content  
rot, though... so it would probably be good to require an expiry date  
to most job postings anyway (which can be reset as required), in which  
case the advantage over a mailing list is somewhat reduced.

> 2) Keep it simple.  This took me ten minutes to set up.  A mailing  
> list would
> have taken at least a few days,

Why the rush?  We've had nothing for years, what's a few days if it  
means a better solution? :)

> 3) Subscribing and unsubscribing to the wiki is much easier and more  
> intuitive,

Only if you already have a wiki account, otherwise it's much the same,  
really.  Plus you'll then get subscription messages for every change  
to the wiki page, in not-very-user-friendly diff format, with no  
particularly useful subject heading.  And at least half of those  
emails won't even correspond to the actual posting of a new job, as  
presumably you'll be notified when people delete jobs, fix formatting/ 
typos etc. as well...?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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