From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59E95138330 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A675E08C8; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:57:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05C54E08C0 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Thinkpad.fritz.box (cable-static-238-109.teleport.ch [213.188.238.109]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: soap) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0343D335C3A; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:57:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1515581849.31546.22.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list From: David Seifert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Eray Aslan Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:57:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180110085511.71b42c93@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec> References: <1685019.DAF74n7IXa@pinacolada> <20180110054855.GA4483@angelfall.a21an.org> <20180110085511.71b42c93@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a84b55c4-ee2c-44e8-9dbe-4aa6687c17a6 X-Archives-Hash: 910a78ebf7d0e01fe4eed440f168775f On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 08:55 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:48:56 +0300 Eray Aslan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers > > > and > > > whitelisted additional participants. > > > > This is so contrary to what I and I thought Gentoo stands for: > > openness, transparency, inclusiveness even when these require a > > rather > > thick skin and result in high noise. It's a price worth paying. > > > > I guess I should a) pay more attention to council elections b) > > consider > > the idea that the whole council thing as it stands now is just not > > working. > > > > Wow. I couldn't have said it better. > Seems we're turning into an elitist club or something... > I wonder how many users we're going to loose on this one. Well done > council :-( > If your only reason to use Gentoo is because you can post to the main developer ML, and not because we try to provide a great distribution with lots of choice, a current toolchain and lots of customization, then you're likely using the wrong distribution.