Make all Teams into email-aliases/mailing-lists
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Barry Warsaw | ||
Bug Description
For a group working together, there tend to be two overlapping groups of people:
1) Those belonging to the Team in Launchpad
2) Those subscribed to the particular mailing-list (if one has been specifically created)
These can be unified by having Launchpad manage the mailing-list (a long-term goal I believe) and automatically have all teams also be an email-alias for the team. This would make it possible for The Team to be similar to:
<email address hidden>
This would unify the FOAF and mailing-lists and allow for CC'ing appropriate groups of people externally; such as on a mailing-list being able to do:
Cc: <email address hidden>
As a possibility, the interface could be made completely generic by extending this facility to all Launchpad 'people'. Individual users would then gain an email alias that could be used for abstraction:
<email address hidden>
If this is used only for none-personal emails then all incoming email could be publically archived; providing a method for easily recovering 'state' when a user moves on from working on a project.
A downside of this second option is that the default use-case for a team alias would only be to allow posting by members of the team ("subscriber posting-only") whereas a email alias for a person object would be designed precisely to do the opposite (mainly emails /not/ from the user!).
| Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote | #1 |
| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Medium → Wishlist |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| assignee: | nobody → barry |
| Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| milestone: | none → 1.2.6 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| milestone: | 1.2.6 → none |
| Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I am not sure i agree with this, unless we still have the choice.
Mailing lists are more open by nature and a team admin (s) could decide to have different rules for membership ./ subcription to both. Sometime a future member may want to lurk on the mailing list for a while, or simply *only* be on the ML.