Goodbye, Fedora (Limiting -devel to maintainers/contributers/etc?)

[Warren Togami]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the original idea was that -devel members has to be
> sponsored before given rw rights.
> Being a fedora developer and/or an active -extras maintainer will just
> speed things up.

No.  fedora-devel-list was originally meant to be developer discussion 
only.  End-user support does not belong here at all.  Unfortunately, 
this list has been increasingly failing us for a few reasons:

- "developer discussion" is a gray area
- policing is a manual process of constant vigilance.  Effort today 
leaves no lasting effects in a few days.

What if more list members helped in the policing, making it an actively 
hostile place for end-users to post support questions?  I dunno...

> 
> I'm not saying that -devel should be limited to RH/FC/Extras members
> -only-, I am saying that something must be done to improve the
> signal-to-noise ratio.
> 

fedora-maintainers was created as an invite only list for this purpose. 
  The signal to noise ratio is a bit better there.  I am personally fine 
with inviting anybody with cvsextras access, or who has done something 
substantive in infrastructure or docs to that list.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com