Re: [boost] A More Welcoming Community

Agreed with the sentiment that new joiners should be added to what in the marketing world is referred to as a "Welcome Sequence." 3 - 4 emails designed to engage new users, provide them with context about what a product/service is during a time when they are most receptive to engaging. On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 3:09 PM Marshall Clow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Sep 23, 2024, at 12:01 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

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Vinnie Falco wrote:

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You said that it was inconvenient to report a bug, and I agree. You

have to sign

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up for the list, wait for the email verification, then post by sending an email, and then wait for the moderator to approve it. And then you have to wait for the replies.

Here is an idea: we can present a web page "report an issue" which combines the process of posting a message and signing up for the mailing list. We can use OAuth, to also allow for Google or GitHub credentials to be used for skipping the verification step. This would streamline the process. The counter- argument is that these users should be using GitHub issues. There are advantages to each method. Through the mailing list, we get more activity and a consolidated view of needs. Through GitHub we get better technology and global visibility.

Our current procedure for reporting issues in general is (1) users open issues in boostorg/boost, (2) Marshall occasionally looks at them and moves them to the appropriate repo.

I would prefer saying “If Marshall can figure out where they should go, then he moves them to the appropriate repo”

But that could be considered a distinction w/o a difference.

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This can probably be improved. :-)

Oh, yeah.

— Marshall

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