Mailman List Policy for Fedora Hosted

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 2/19/08, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jon Stanley wrote:
>
> > On Feb 19, 2008 10:45 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> >
> > > 4) What should the policy on archives be? My proposal:
> > >
> > > A) All lists must have public archives.  The exception would be the
> > > default "mailman" list.
> >
> > Agreed on everything (with Mike's caveats) except for this.  There
> > *will* be exceptions to this rule.  An example that I'm on is
> > fedora-freemedia-list - we don't want folks home addresses showing up
> > to anyone that cares to look at the archives.
> >
> > freemedia is a closed list with private archives, because of the
> > personal information to be found there.  fedora-board-list is another
> > one, and I'm sure there's more, dealing with security for example.
> > There needs to be a method of exception to the rule.
>
> Hmm, unfortunately I don't think hosted is the right solution for those
> people.  We even offer direct rsync access to all of the projects, I had
> assumed we'd be doing the same for mail archives.  We don't allow any
> private data in hosted currently, not sure that we should for the mailing
> lists either.

Yeah, I would think that a mailing list wouldn't be the best tool for
the free media project anyway.  I would think that some sort of
bug/issue tracking system where bugs/issues could be marked as
"private" would be best - that would make it easier to make sure that
media requests get handled and don't get lost.

Jeff