proposal: mailing list reorganization
Thomas M Steenholdt
tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Jan 11 08:53:56 UTC 2007
Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Bojan Smojver wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora <at> leemhuis.info> writes:
>>
>>> Thus the plan is to restrict it to well known open-source or project
>>> contributors and make it moderated for the rest of the world.
>>
>> So, when a new person attempts to subscribe to this list (say, a
>> Debian or ASF
>> developer), someone is going to check this person's FOSS credentials
>> before
>> membership is accepted, right? How is this going to be organised and
>> will there
>> be objective criteria for "well known"?
>>
>
> Adding a restriction like this would be really bad, since a lot of users
> are "worthy" of devel-status and can produce occasional patches or
> propose/discuss stuff relevant for development, even though the don't
> own a FOSS project?!?
>
> This would effectively narrow the number of people who can (try to)
> influence the project.
>
> /Thomas
>
Re-reading the original mail, I realized that I may have misunderstood
the "restriction"?!? Making posts from *the world* moderated is probably
not going to be a huge issue. As long as it's *possible* to subscribe
and post for everyone.
/Thomas
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