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

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

I'm sure this is a decent topic to discuss for upcoming committee
meeting. 

Maybe it's time to fix a meeting date, and prepare "Topics" to discuss
during the meeting. 

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:26 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr> wrote:
> > I'm not quite sure about it. Because we already state "write e-mails"
> > moreover there're examples of this input.
>
> But we don't now convey the sense of importance of the context of
> necessity of the mail. For example, I know the e-mails of a fairly
> wide number of contacts off the top of my head, but in case there's a
> new one (whom the applicant is familiar with but the one taking the RT
> ticket is not) then it is always well served to have the e-mail
> address handy.
>
> > I used to look for e-mails of popular contact people, but putting this
> > burden on committee is not best way to do.
>
> +1
>
> > 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.
>
> As opposed to "See changelog" or "See bugzilla" :)
>
> > 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.
>
> Now we do this as an ad-hoc so as to get clarity. A process would
> streamline it and allow the knowledge to be codified.
>
> :Sankarshan