Re: Rules of discourse for the mailing lists
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 04:23:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Ian Jackson)
>
> > 2. How much of the traffic on debian-{devel,policy} is non-developers ?
>
> Not enough to close it at this time. We have one problem poster whom I have
> put on "digest mode" (one posting containing a concatenation of all of his
> material for the day) rather than censoring him. I would prefer to err on
> the side of open-ness if possible. Many developers have recently been
> lobbying for less use of private lists, not more. I personally feel the
> dynamics of the project work best when it is as open as possible. I'd hate
> to see it become a cabal.
I have to agree in full with Bruce.
I am no developer at the moment, but I will be, sooner or later. I am
looking forward to it, because I liked the athmosphere and the open-ness of
the project. You already have debian-private (and I can imagine that it is
important), but I see no reason why you should close another list. Please
remember that even non developer can have knowledge about the debian system,
and can try to answer questions on debian-devel, esp. those from other
developers "in spe".
It would be discouraging to have a closed pure technical list for an open
project (and would made suspicious).
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann
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