On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 02:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 23:50 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes:
> > [1] IMO, this FESCO decision is a fault and mistake, we all will regret.
> > It molests maintainers with long term development babbling and molests
> > "application developers" with "bureaucracy of Fedora package
> > maintenance" - It's not helpful to both parties.
>
> Well, the biggest problem with -maintainers was that it was only postable
> through on subscription (which also kept people from using tools like the GMane
> NNTP and web interfaces) and that subscription was essentially limited to
> existing maintainers (which kept not only the random users out, but even people
> with legitimate content to post).
Yes, it had been a closed list and maintainers did get automatically
s/did/did
not/
subscribed to it - The FESCO of the time this was decided, this
approach
s/, this approach/, thought this approach to be/
wise - I never did - But THEM decided otherwise.
Sorry,
Ralf