proposal: mailing list reorganization

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 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
> 

Re-reading the original mail, I realized that I may have misunderstood 
the "restriction"?!? Making posts from *the world* moderated is probably 
not going to be a huge issue. As long as it's *possible* to subscribe 
and post for everyone.

/Thomas