Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

[Brandon Invergo]

Hi Karl,

First, a couple direct responses and then I'll put an updated draft
letter at the end.

> Also, we don't want to blast maintainers with one email for every old
> job they posted.  It would be better to send them one email with all the
> old jobs, if we can manage it.

That shouldn't be a problem, I think.

> It doesn't matter, but I'm always in favor of avoiding gmail.
> Also, we could certainly make a GNU alias or account for you.
> Are you on the savannah lists yet?

I am on savannah-hackers-public, savannah-announce, savannah-help-public
(just now) and savannah-users (just now). As for a GNU alias or account,
I should perhaps earn that badge :) It's ok for me to use my account
(address@hidden) for now.

Here's an updated proposed letter (obviously, I would adjust the wording
for cases of individual posts):

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Hello,
My name is Brandon Invergo and I am helping to review the Help Wanted
section of Savannah, the GNU software forge. 

The following posts of yours are still marked as "open" in the system:
YYYY/MM/DD - "Title" [1]; YYYY/MM/DD - "Title 2" [2]. Are these calls
still open? 

In an effort to keep the Help Wanted section up-to-date, if they are
still open, we would like to encourage you to update them. If a
position's description has not changed, a trivial addition to the text
should be enough to update the post's date. If the positions are no
longer open, then we would request that you set their status to
"Closed," which would hide them from view.

I would be happy to do a minor update or to close the post for you, if
you would like. Keep in mind that if the position becomes available
again, you are welcome to re-open the call.

Thank you very much for your help.
Cheers,
Brandon

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=XX&job_id=XXX
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=XX&job_id=XXX
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