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Re: [eclipse-dev] Moderators needed

If possible, add me to moderation.

A possible approach is have different person work on
different days of week.

My time zone is America\Charlotte GMT -08:00 (EDT)

Can work on Week-ends between 11:00 am - 11:00 pm.

Thanks
Sheldon

--- John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As you may or may not know, this mailing list is
> moderated. The list 
> receives a fair amount of off-topic content, both
> typical Internet spam 
> and "user questions" that are more appropriate for
> the newsgroup.  This 
> off-topic content was once at a level where the list
> was no longer useful 
> for committer discussions, so moderation was added. 
> Here is a link to the 
> bug with the original discussion:
> 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=88250
> 
> This has been very successful, but recently there
> has been some attrition 
> among the moderators, and I think a couple more
> moderators are needed.  It 
> would be particularly useful to have moderators in
> different time zones, 
> such as Europe and western Americas. Added
> redundancy also helps when 
> moderators are on vacation, or not checking mail
> frequently.  Becoming a 
> moderator is not much work - typically there are no
> more than one or two 
> messages a day, and when there are several
> moderators it is very light 
> work (committers and other frequent contributors
> have their moderate flag 
> cleared so the bulk of messages do not go through
> the moderator).  If you 
> are interested in becoming a moderator, please email
> me and I will send 
> you more details.
> 
> John>
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