Mailing list for Group/Project Leads and suggestion to put group/project pages under source control

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

Am at the project Kulla hackday and this came up in discussion again, any
feedback on my proposals?

Cheers,
Martijn

On 28 March 2015 at 15:57, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We had a discussion recently in the Adoption Group around having its
> members keeping project/group pages fresh and relevant. The first
> experiment for this was Project Valhalla
> <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/> (which was well received by
> that project).
>
> The discussion then moved onto:
>
> 1.) How to offer this page overhaul service for all groups/projects
> 2.) How to create a patch/review cycle for the pages
>
> My proposal is:
>
> 1.) Create a new mailing list that contains all group/project leads so
> that there is a communication channel for offers like this to the entire
> OpenJDK project.
>
> On further thought, perhaps the discuss <discuss at openjdk.java.net>
> mailing list is the right place? I'm not sure whether all project/group
> leads are subscribed to this list. If it is the right place then l will
> post the Adoption Group's offer there.
>
> 2.) Have the OpenJDK project/group pages placed under mercurial source
> control which will enable OpenJDK developers (Adoption Group volunteers
> in particular) to submit patches to those pages in order to keep them
> relevant and up to date.  This has the advantage of there being an
> automatic review step before publishing.
>
> Are either of those two suggestions sensible and/or doable?
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
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