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From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

> * Subscribing to the list and receiving list mail remains as it is now.
> * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and
>   whitelisted additional participants.

Any chance you'd consider automatically white-listing all current proxy
maintainers :)?

> * Whitelisting requires that one developer vouches for you. We intend this
>   to be as unbureaucratic as possible.

Or should I go harass the dev that usually commits my changes? Arguably,
being a proxy maintainer already implies at least one dev thinks you're
not a total idiot, as random users can't add themselves to the package
metadata on their own.

Thanks...