proposal: mailing list reorganization

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Bojan Smojver wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora <at> leemhuis.info> writes:
> 
>> Thus the plan is to restrict it to well known open-source or project
>> contributors and make it moderated for the rest of the world.
> 
> So, when a new person attempts to subscribe to this list (say, a Debian or ASF
> developer), someone is going to check this person's FOSS credentials before
> membership is accepted, right? How is this going to be organised and will there
> be objective criteria for "well known"?
> 

Adding a restriction like this would be really bad, since a lot of users 
are "worthy" of devel-status and can produce occasional patches or 
propose/discuss stuff relevant for development, even though the don't 
own a FOSS project?!?

This would effectively narrow the number of people who can (try to) 
influence the project.

/Thomas