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On 27/6/03 8:21 pm, "Matthew Kennedy" <mkennedy@g.o> wrote: |
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> I hope that we can open -core as a publicly read-only list to involve |
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> our community more. We owe this much to our user-base in my opinion. |
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> For these reasons, I have CC'd this to -dev. |
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I can appreciate the reasons for which -core is a closed list, and I was in |
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strong support of it when I initially read them. I took the approach: the |
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Gentoo devs are the folks are the ones doing the work, so the Gentoo devs |
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can do as they wish in this regard. |
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However this recent spat does reflect very badly. Now not only do you have |
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to recognise the fact that users feel excluded from the -core list, you also |
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have to recognise the exclusivity of the -biz list, also. |
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I am sure both these lists are closed for very valid reasons, but how about |
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opening the archives of the -core list after 3 months or so, much in the way |
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that national classified documents are often published after 50 years..? |
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Obviously, it is harder to prove that the archives have not been censored |
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themselves, than in the case of a live read-only mailing list, but this |
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would provide the opportunity for devs to discuss security & fall on their |
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faces in private (because no one cares about such trivial stuff months down |
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the line), and still provide public openness. |
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Stroller. |
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