Goodbye, Fedora (Limiting -devel to maintainers/contributers/etc?)

[Randy Wyatt]

> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, the original idea was that -devel members has to be
> > sponsored before given rw rights.
> > Being a fedora developer and/or an active -extras maintainer will just
> > speed things up.
>
> No.  fedora-devel-list was originally meant to be developer discussion
> only.  End-user support does not belong here at all.  Unfortunately,
> this list has been increasingly failing us for a few reasons:
>
> - "developer discussion" is a gray area
> - policing is a manual process of constant vigilance.  Effort today
> leaves no lasting effects in a few days.
>
> What if more list members helped in the policing, making it an actively
> hostile place for end-users to post support questions?  I dunno...



Making any list actively hostile to end-users is a quick way to lose
end-users. This is one of the reasons I no longer use openSuSE.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20070221/43258495/attachment.htm>