[sonada-developers] Proposed Charter

[Ciaran M. <ke...@us...>]

Hi people,

Here's Draft 1 of a proposed charter / aup for this list. Feel free to=20
comment, preferably before it stops being proposed :)

Once we have an agreed charter I'll set up something to mail it out to th=
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list on a weekly basis or something...

--- BEGIN PROPOSED CHARTER ---

CHARTER FOR sonada-developers MAILING LIST
Version 1.0 Draft 1, Most recently updated 20010620.

CONTENTS
1. What is the sonada-developers list for?
2. How do I unsubscribe?
3. Who is in charge?
4. What cannot be posted here?
5. FAQ
6. This charter

1. WHAT IS THE sonada-developers LIST FOR?

Sonada is a a website news and forum system. You can find out more at=20
http://sonada.sf.net/ .

This list is for discussing development of sonada. In particular, posts o=
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fit into one or more of these areas:

* Bug reports. We encourage an open bug policy, and if you find a problem=
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please let us know so that we can do something about it. You can see a li=
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of known bugs at http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=3D29485 . When reporting=
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bug, please be as specific as possible -- "it's no workin!" isn't helpful=
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but "admin\news.pl gives me an error saying 'undeclared identifier at lin=
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123' with perl 5.6.1" is.

* Feature requests. You can take a look at existing feature requests at=20
http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=3D29485 . If what you see isn't there, fe=
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free to post (sensible) requests to this list.

* Patches, translations etc. We really appreciate code submissions from=20
anyone who has time to help. Since our project uses the GPL, we ask that =
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give us permission to release it under that license. If your patch is big=
 (>=20
~10KBytes) please consider mailing it to ke...@us... instead.

2. HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?

Please see the email that was sent to you when you joined.

3. WHO IS IN CHARGE?

If for any reason you ever need to contact this list's administrator, sen=
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email to ke...@us... or sam...@us... .

4. WHAT CANNOT BE POSTED HERE?

* No binaries other than small patches for sonada.
* Advertising should be kept to your sig, and your sig shouldn't be longe=
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than about four lines.
* Don't go wildly offtopic.
* No HTML messages -- please post in plaintext only.
* Please consider posting "How do I?" requests to the sonada-users list,=20
especially if it's a web design question.
* Keep language clean where possible.

5. FAQ

There are as yet no frequently asked questions.

6. THIS CHARTER

This charter is maintained by the admins. Feel free to post sensible=20
criticisms / error corrections to this list or the admins.

--- END PROPOSED CHARTER ---

Lemme know what you think...

Regards,
Ciaran

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Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:         ke...@us...
Web:          http://www.opensourcepan.com/
Random:       Am I SHOPLIFTING?