Outdated contact information

[smellems]

Already some of the contact information, mainly emails are outdated, with people changing jobs and sometimes not even keeping the same email..

This is going to be a problem for this site. I'd like to get some ideas on how to mitigate this.

Could we send out email to all contacts to remind them the are the point of contact for a project or an OSS and if that no longer the case or is going to change please update the contact information..

How could that work?

What else?

[j-rewerts]

We could ask for a business account email? Often times teams will share an email or a Google Group or something where concerns could be raised.

[simon332114]

With the available contact emails, running a simple script every x period of time that checks every entry and verifies that metadataLastUpdated isn't any older than y months and sends automated emails to those concerned. Here is an open source option that could schedule the script if it's done in python : https://github.com/dbader/schedule

[simon332114]

Made a test version of this on https://github.com/VilledeMontreal/ore-ero/tree/email-update-script