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* Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes
  @ 2007-07-15  3:54 99% ` Daniel Drake
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From: Daniel Drake @ 2007-07-15  3:54 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Mike Doty wrote:
> All-
> 
> We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only
> devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post.  devs who moderate in
>  bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves.  in addition the
> gentoo-project list will be created to take over what -dev frequently becomes.
>  there is no requirement to be on this new list.

I'm not keen on this idea. I like the "traditional" unmoderated mailing 
list scheme used in open source projects everywhere, including this one 
at present.

The Gentoo development community is much more closed than the 
development communities of most other open source projects (for good 
reasons), and I wouldn't like to see it close up further. Moderation 
would be used to exclude certain discussion, but the real solution for 
that is just to teach people to ignore the idiots. (yep, not easy in 
some cases!)

I'm also not sure that the proposal solves any problems -- I glanced 
over the last few weeks of mail and didn't see any that I would reject 
from a moderation queue.

I do like the "gentoo-politics" idea that came up a few weeks ago, which 
was to move politics off gentoo-dev and to another list, but I'd view it 
from another perspective (and avoid the words 'politics'): make 
gentoo-dev for development topics only, and have another list for the 
rest. But, I suspect we'd come back to the same problem on both lists, 
where some people are too keen to talk and deviate too far away from 
technical discussion.

Daniel

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