[fab] State of Fedora (a long email)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Well, this list is invitation only, 
>> Others do send mails to this list. It is moderated.
> 
> Didn't know that. And it seems that fact is not documented in the wiki
> or the list's front-page.

There is even a alias setup that people can send mails to. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#Contact. I have explicitly added a 
note now.

> And it failed. 

I believe it is still only contributors who are signed up there.

So let's admit that and change something
> (fedora-maintainers has quite a bad fame now already, so changing its
> behaviour will probably not help much).

If contributors flame each other, even a contributors only list like 
-maintainers is going to be a less pleasant place.

> 
> Further: cvs_cladone and cvs_extras/a @redhat.com mailing list address
> are two different things.

Yes. Fedora-maintainers is all contributors. Not just extras.
> 
> I want a general mailing list cleanup of what has grown in the past
> years -- get rid of some old cruft here and there. I think the
> end-result could be two or three lists less and a better communication
> experience for everyone.

More details?

Rahul