Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

[Karl Berry]

Hi Brandon,

(Sorry for the delayed reply.)

    One specific question about the Savane
    software: can the author manually just update the date of the post or
    does the text have to be updated in order to do so? 

As I recall, there's no direct control over the date; I expect you have
to update some text.  However, just adding a space to the end or some
other such non-change should be enough.

    still I would want to strongly encourage that they at least update
    the date.

I agree with you completely.

    My name is Brandon Invergo and I am helping to [clean
    up?/moderate?/organize?/keep clean?] the Help Wanted 

How about: "review".

    Savannah, the GNU software forge. On Month DD, YYYY, you posted an ad

Probably including a url to the job in there would be helpful.
Also (trivial), I suggest a blank line before the "On Month...".

Also, we don't want to blast maintainers with one email for every old
job they posted.  It would be better to send them one email with all the
old jobs, if we can manage it.

    is, we would like to encourage you to update the [date?/text?], helping

How about: "it" :).

    then we would request that you set its status to "Closed" 

How about adding something like:
", so as to keep Savannah up to date.  I would be happy to do this for
you if you like."


My experience is that many maintainers are happy to reply to an email
saying "sure go ahead" but that if they go to figure out some web
interface that they haven't looked at in 5 years, it'll never happen.
This comes up with the mailing lists all the time, I can tell you from
personal experience :).

    I can send such admin emails from the email address on my personal
    domain rather than from this Gmail one.

It doesn't matter, but I'm always in favor of avoiding gmail.
Also, we could certainly make a GNU alias or account for you.
Are you on the savannah lists yet?

Thanks again Brandon,
karl