Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/20/2018 04:28 PM, Matthew Thode wrote:
> On 18-03-20 23:17:52, Michael Palimaka wrote:
>> I see that in bug #650964[1] Council is pushing forward again with
>> implementing user whitelisting on this mailing list (ie. anyone that is
>> not "approved" will have their mail rejected).
>>
>> Could someone please explain how this doesn't directly contradict the
>> core tenets of an open and inclusive community?
>>
>> 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/650964
>>
> While I personally do no agree with mailing list moderation infra has
> been tasked with moving forward on it.  In that vein, this is what we
> are proposing.
> 
> Install and configure mailman3/hyperkitty/postorius once they all
> support python3.  Specifically we wish to use docker-mailman for this so
> we can easilly redeploy this on diferent machines as needed.
> 
> mailman3 gives us two good things, it has support for moderation (for
> better or worse) and it handles senders using dmarc.
> 
> There are still some issues with it infra side (archiving will still
> have to use the old system) and moving mailing lists is going to be fun,
> but them the breaks.

Switching to mailman might have some good merits on its own, but as I
understand it it isn't necessary for the proposal at hand, that can be
solved using access control lists in mlmmj-process?

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