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I did wish to participate re two items here, but regretfully I will be |
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travelling at the time, and it's unlikely that I will have connectivity. |
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On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:39:54PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> 3. Final review of GLEP 74 [4,5] |
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> Full-tree verification using Manifest files |
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The implementation is done, some tweaks were made since the previous |
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month's version. |
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> 4. Restricting gentoo-dev/-project posting [6] |
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> * Restricting posting to both gentoo-dev and gentoo-project, while creating a |
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> gentoo-experts list? |
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> * Restricting posting to gentoo-dev and moving all official business there? |
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> * Restricting posting to gentoo-dev and moving all official business to a |
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> revived restricted gentoo-council list? |
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> * Moderating lists instead? |
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I had not weighed in publicly on this before, but wish to make a |
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statement. |
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The original split of gentoo-dev to gentoo-project included |
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moderation of gentoo-dev, however that was never really implemented, |
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mostly for technical reasons, and a decreased need after the split. |
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I oppose a further split of -dev/-project/-experts, and instead |
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propose better list policies of -dev. If it's technical, even coming |
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from an expert user, it probably belongs on -dev. If it's about the |
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organizational structures of Gentoo, it belongs on -project. |
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How do we keep the threads more on-topic? Moderation maybe, but I'm |
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not convinced that is best. |
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mlmmj, the list manager app that has powered the lists since 2004/Oct/28 |
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has served us well. However, it needs to be replaced. Upstream progress |
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has stalled, and the codebase is not trivial to improve. It lacked |
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features that are ever more relevant (spam, real moderation, |
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web-interfaces). |
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Mailman is my leading replacement candidate, as they have resolved many |
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of the issues that prevented it's choice ~13 years ago (mostly around |
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Unicode). It would give improved moderation & subscription control, |
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amongst other improvements. Also in Python3 rather than the unique style |
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of C used by mlmmj. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Asst. Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
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