On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:38 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Oops. Ken - I missed the "overall" in your mail, would that mean I accidentally volunteered to manage every single squeak mailing list? I can't really do that, I thought it was for the Board mailing list only ... or could someone clue me in what "overall admin" means? Are there other candidates to do this?
- Bert -
No, no worries. As Marcus has otherwise stated it shouldn't be much work. What it entails is for the most part simply creating new lists (or deleting old ones I suppose) that need to be created because you are given access to the mechanism to do so. Also this gives you access to each individual list but that does not mean you are expected to handle every little request or go through the moderated messages, each list has its own administrator or set of administrators for that. But if someone loses their password, or the existing administrator disappears, then you are in a position to slot someone else in, otherwise without the individual list password we would be stuck.
There are perhaps some other corner cases that could come up, but it would be pretty rare. While Marcus was doing the job he did work to move lists we had setup under ezmlm to mailman, for example, but he completed that and I can't immediately foresee anything else of that sort.
Ken
P.S. And as Marcus also stated you are backed up by the box-admins team for any real work. The main thing is that old chestnut of mine that I simply don't feel comfortable with anyone but a Board member having access each and every mailing list including the private archives of the Board mailing list. There is another reason, which is that there is another board member job which is the Teams Leader. One of this person's jobs is to see that everyone team that wants one has a mailing list. It's very handy if these two jobs are done by the same person (which is what I did) but still pretty handy for it to be two seperate board members.