Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, council@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-07-21
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:55:40
Message-Id: 20190710135534.GA21574@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-07-21 by Lars Wendler
1 On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Lars Wendler wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:00:01 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6
7 *snip*
8
9 > >My second agenda item is: removing posting restrictions from gentoo-dev
10 > >mailing list.
11 > >
12 > >I was on the Council that made those changes, and from retrospective I
13 > >believe the decision to be a mistake. It was made to workaround
14 > >a problem with inefficiency of ComRel, and we should have focused
15 > >on fixing ComRel instead. I don't believe it serves its purpose well
16 > >and IMO it causes more problems than it solves.
17
18 *snip*
19
20 > I fully support this request.
21 > This was the utter worst decision being done by council I've ever had
22 > the misfortune to be a witness of and I hope our new council will try
23 > to never top this kind of bad decisions.
24
25 I was on the council that made this decision as well, and I feel that it
26 should never have passed because it comes dangerously close to violating
27 our social contract. Some disagree because everything is still read
28 only, but I'm still not comfortable with it.
29
30 From my POV, there is not really anything to discuss. The post
31 restriction should be removed immediately.
32
33 William

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