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
subscribed to it - The FESCO of the time this was decided, this approach
wise - I never did - But THEM decided otherwise.
Now, at least I will very likely miss essential postings, because they
get swapped away in all the "*-ng, x11.R8, kernel-*, ubuntu has "a
bigger one" babbling ... THEM have decided.
Fortunately, THEM are a democratically elected - Now, I have a list of
people have made top rankings on my list of folks I will NOT vote in
next FESCO elections.
Ralf