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Mike Doty wrote: |
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> All- |
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> We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only |
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> devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate in |
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> bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the |
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> gentoo-project list will be created to take over what -dev frequently becomes. |
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> there is no requirement to be on this new list. |
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I'm not keen on this idea. I like the "traditional" unmoderated mailing |
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list scheme used in open source projects everywhere, including this one |
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at present. |
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The Gentoo development community is much more closed than the |
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development communities of most other open source projects (for good |
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reasons), and I wouldn't like to see it close up further. Moderation |
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would be used to exclude certain discussion, but the real solution for |
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that is just to teach people to ignore the idiots. (yep, not easy in |
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some cases!) |
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I'm also not sure that the proposal solves any problems -- I glanced |
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over the last few weeks of mail and didn't see any that I would reject |
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from a moderation queue. |
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I do like the "gentoo-politics" idea that came up a few weeks ago, which |
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was to move politics off gentoo-dev and to another list, but I'd view it |
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from another perspective (and avoid the words 'politics'): make |
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gentoo-dev for development topics only, and have another list for the |
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rest. But, I suspect we'd come back to the same problem on both lists, |
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where some people are too keen to talk and deviate too far away from |
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technical discussion. |
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Daniel |
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