[metrics-team] Opening this list to posts by non-subscribers?

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 14/12/16 10:44, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> Hello team,
> 
> while working on the content for the new Metrics website, the 
> following idea crossed my mind:
> 
> Should we open this list to posts by non-subscribers, as a way to 
> receive suggestions and questions from outside the team?
> 
> Right now, we're using this list mainly for announcements and to a 
> very small extent for team-internal discussions.  Here are some 
> statistics:
> 
> In the last three months, there were: - 13 meeting
> announcements/reminders or replies, - 2 announcement posts without
> replies, - 1 long thread with 13 messages about running CollecTor
> 1.1, - 1 short thread with 4 messages about a drop in obfs3 users,
> and - 1 cross-posted message that I think got rejected.
> 
> The bulk of team-internal discussions happens on Trac and a small 
> portion happens privately, cc'ing everyone involved.
> 
> I also remember that Tor people were confused that they couldn't
> post to this list to inform us of something, unless they
> subscribed, which felt wrong because they're not part of the team.
> 
> I could imagine that we'll receive more feedback if people can
> email the team directly, rather than emailing a huge Tor mailing
> list like tor-dev at .  We should make it clear that metrics-team@ has
> public archives, though.
> 
> We could still keep metrics-team@ moderated on first post, in order
> to limit the amount of spam that ends up on the list.
> 
> What do you think?  Let's make a decision at the meeting tomorrow.

Here's what we decided:

16:11:15 <karsten> iwakeh: what do you think about letting
non-subscribers post and use that list as contact address?
16:11:31 <iwakeh> karsten: I think opening post after the one-time
moderation ought to be fine.
16:11:40 <karsten> cool! let's do it.
16:11:50 <iwakeh> better for bug-reports.
16:11:50 <karsten> and if it turns out to be a terrible idea, we can
always change it later.

I believe there's nothing to be configured.  New messages from
non-subscribers will simply go to the moderation queue, and we'll not
reject them as before but accept them.

That means we can start putting that address on the new Metrics
website now.  Great!

All the best,
Karsten
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