[Devel] On removing people from the "I want to help!" list if they are already a contributor

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, will kahn-greene wrote:

> If OpenHatch had a way to blast out an email to all the people listed as 
> "I want to help", then being a contributor and being listed is useful.
>
> I think of the "I want to help" list as being there for people who want 
> to help and this is how they're reflecting their interest and also for 
> people who want to help a bunch of projects, but in a "sprint" fashion, 
> but not long-term commitment fashion.
>
> For example, at some point I'd like to do a sprint on PyBlosxom stuff to 
> (finally) get version 1.5 out the door.  I'd send an email to the users 
> list, the developers list, and then it'd be nice to blast out an email 
> to all the "I want to help" people.  The latter catches the people who 
> aren't regular contributors to the project and thus aren't on the 
> mailing lists, but are interested in doing sprints from time to time.
>
> Is that a valid use case (knowing I can't currently blast out an email 
> to all the people who want to help)?  If so, then I think we should keep 
> it as is.

We decided (with willkg's input) at the weekly meeting that we should keep 
this the way things are. https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue304 says more!

-- Asheesh.

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