Re: Mandating that email addresses of contacts be put in - is this a good idea ?

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

I'm not quite sure about it. Because we already state "write e-mails"
moreover there're examples of this input. 

I used to look for e-mails of popular contact people, but putting this
burden on committee is not best way to do. 

I'm not quite sure but considering application is only thing should be
done in members lifetime, they should be wise to point some contact
names to us to judge. 

Maybe we should define this as a policy and request for contact
information references if there's no e-mail or even name. Then if we
can't get any info back, we should decline the application. I think we
have to alter the request information e-mail template a little to
reflect that reference contact e-mails are important else it's
impossible to decide who's eligible or not. 

What others think about this? 


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:48 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> $SUBJECT is an RFC - is this a good idea ? More often than not we get
> applications that have either:
>
> [1] list of names
> [2] "see the changelog"
> or,
> [3] "see the GNOME Bugzilla"
>
> Good things, but when processing applications one has to keep on
> flipping between different sources of information (eg Mango, SVN,
> Bugzilla) which is somewhat annoying.
>
> What do the others think ? Can the form be tweaked to take in email
> addresses of the contacts ?
>
> :Sankarshan