Re: Mailing list policy
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Marcus Brinkmann) wrote on 21.01.98 in <[🔎] 19980121215731.18838@flora>:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 01:48:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > split. Instead, I would propose that we tighten the rules for
> > debian-devel, as follows:
> >
> > * No postings from nondevelopers. Nondevelopers should post to
> > debian-user. If a separate non-queries list for nondevelopers is
> > required (eg for political discussions) it should be created.
>
> This would be bad, I think. I participated some time before I got official
> maintainer on debian-devel. Carefully I was only to post when I could
> contribute to some problem. The open development should include the right of
> non-developers to step in threads on debian-devel (assumption I make:
> everyone is a responsible person etc...)
I started out the same way. However, I think we cannot, unfortunately,
expect everyone else to also do this.
Without pointing at anyone specific, enough people aren't responsible in
that regard to make systems break that rely on this.
I don't have a perfect solution. However, I think it is painfully clear
that we have a problem.
> But what is more serious I think: If non-developers are not allowed to post
> to debian-devel, threads will be moved to debian-user by non-developers,
> where they don't belong. This will create more confusion than occasional
> strange postings by clueless easy-to-recognizer-people, I would think.
We have the strange state that we currently have one list (debian-user)
for the greatest part of the people (users), and lots of mailing lists for
the smallest (developers). I suspect that is part of the problem.
MfG Kai
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