Closed Bug 466309 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

create a moderated mailing list for community design group

Categories

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Account Requests, task)

Product:
Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard
Component:
Account Requests
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jslater, Assigned: aravind)

References

Details

Hi. Last week I filed bug 465627 to create a newsgroup for our design community, but after further reflection and discussion, I decided what we really need is a moderated mailing list (as in occasional one-way communication from us rather than a group that everyone participates in). So, I'm closing that bug and opening this one...apologies for the confusion on this.

Anyway, the basic functionality is that people should be able to opt-in to this mailing list through a checkbox on a site like the upcoming Community Store. Then, we should send them a verification email that they need to confirm before they're actually added to the list. 

I spoke with Matt yesterday and he indicated that this wasn't a particularly big deal but if others have different opinions let me know and we'll resolve.

If possible, this should be in place as early as possible next week so it can be implemented and tested as part of the Community Store launch (which is right after Thanksgiving).

Thanks!
Blocks: 464832
Webdev needs to know what they need to implement on their side to make sure this works.
Server ops guys, can you give Ryan some guidance here? Even if the actual address isn't completely set up, it would be great for him to have a general idea so he can plan for implementation.
What exactly are you wanting to know?
(In reply to comment #3)
> What exactly are you wanting to know?

Currently the upload form for the Community Store has a checkbox that says 'Add me to your design community mailing list'. That just sets a flag in the database stating they want to be on the mailing list. 

There wasn't much discussion as to how someone is added to the mailing list after that. Preferably the user would automatically be signed up for the mailing list (mailman I'm assuming), which would then send them the confirmation email to verify their email address.
That's not really possible with mailman currently unless you go through its subscribe interface (via a form post or something)... There does seem to be a patch to mailman's add_members that could possibly be used for this (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1765041&group_id=103&atid=300103). Could have a cron that runs daily to pull all e-mail addresses with that box checked and adds the new ones via that patched add_members script...
per bug 464832#c23

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464832#c23

I think we can send an email to communitystore-subscribe@ with the From: line being the user's email address.  Mailman should reply to them with further verification steps.
also, did we decide on a name?

communitystore@ ?
design@ ?
Alex, thanks for your input here. Your plan sounds great to me. As a bit of added context, we'll eventually promote this email list in other places besides the Community Store, so your suggestion seems to work well with that need for scalability.

What else is needed to make this happen? Anything I can do to facilitate? 

Re: the name, "design@" sounds perfect to me.
I need the mailing list name asap to test this.
design@ - does that work?
(In reply to comment #10)
> design@ - does that work?

That will be design@mozilla.org, fyi.
(In reply to comment #11)
> That will be design@mozilla.org, fyi.

Perfect, thanks.
Bumping this up in priority. We have only a few days left before we launch and need to QA this as part of bug 464832
Severity: normal → critical
Assignee: server-ops → aravind
Who will be the admins for this list?
(In reply to comment #14)
> Who will be the admins for this list?

Tara & I will be the admins...thanks!
List created, Tara and Slater should have the list admin password in an e-mail from me.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
this is done! 

Any uploads with the checkbox checked will get a subscription request from design-request@mozilla.org
Sorry, commented on the wrong (but related) bug.
Product: mozilla.org → Infrastructure & Operations
Product: Infrastructure & Operations → Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard
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