Re: RFA: www.debian.org/misc/merchandise

Laura,

I'd be happy to adopt the merchandise page.  I've been looking for an
easy way to start volunteering.

- Ryan 

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:53:43PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> Dear all
> As part of the recent web team sprint [1] (report will come in the
> following days hopefully), we have reviewed several areas of the website
> that were in need of maintenance.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam
> 
> For the /english/misc/merchandise page [2], we need maintainer(s) to
> keep up-to-date the database of merchandise, process new requests, and
> care about the bugs related to the list of Debian merchandise, if any.
> 
> [2] https://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise
> 
> This is a call for help, or request for "adoption": would anybody
> volunteer to this task?
> 
> In the /english/misc folder of our repo [3] you can find the
> books-related files.
> 
> [3]
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/misc/
> 
> Maintaining the merchandise page can be a nice entry point for
> somebody to get involved in the Debian web team. Technically speaking,
> it's an easy job, but the "curation" task that a human provides is very
> appreciated by our users. On the contrary, an outdated or unmaintained
> list of providers looses its value very quickly.
> 
> If somebody is interested in adoption, they won't be alone (at least at
> the beginning). I've included my address in the alias [email protected]
> to work together with them until they find a suitable workflow and they
> feel comfortable doing the task themselves. We'll also document
> everything for others to jump in too.
> 
> If nobody steps ahead at the end of the year, we'll move the current
> (English) content to https://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise, removing the
> page (English and translations) from www.debian.org.
> 
> If you are interested, reply to this message in the public mailing list
> ([email protected]) or privately to [email protected] and I'll
> point to detailed steps to start. You can also join #debian-www IRC
> channel (in irc.debian.org).
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Laura Arjona Reina
> https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
>