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

[Andy Green]

Andy Green wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 
>>> Restricting access to the mailing list would, IMO, just paint a 
>>> picture of
>>> Fedora developers as elitists -- and I don't think that's what you're 
>>> hoping
>>> to achieve.
> 
>> I'm not saying that -devel should be limited to RH/FC/Extras members
>> -only-, I am saying that something must be done to improve the
>> signal-to-noise ratio.
> 
> Is that really true about the ratio?  This ESR "from Hell's heart I stab 
> at thee" stuff is going to stay in its own thread.  You can score the 

...and it's not like pulling the bedcovers over the head and bouncing 
everyone who is not "one of us, one of us" out is going to resolve the 
actual issue either:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1340237

''ESR gives up on Fedora

Wednesday February 21, 2007 (01:33 PM GMT)

By: Eric S. Raymond

The following letter was received from ESR, who has sent it to a number 
of Linux-related publications and mailing lists. It is presented 
verbatim, except for the addition of HTML code.
...''

-Andy