On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 12:52 -0400, <another person I will not vote for
in FESCO elections> wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.
So essentially you're agreeing that the way -maintainers was handled/set
up by the old FESCo was wrong.
Correct.
Which is basically what the current
FESCo decided. We can go on for days discussing various ways to fix it,
but we decided that since it was broken, removing the broken bit was the
best course of action for now since it provided a disservice to many
people as evidenced by the complaints on the various lists about it by
the very people who IMO we were trying to target.
IMO, the current FESCO's
decision to kill "maintainers@" is as wrong as
their predecessor's decision to not make subscription to "maintainers@"
mandatory to all "package maintainers".
If you have a better
solution for lists to actually serve the needs of the community, please
propose it to FESCo.
I would keep maintainers, but make subscription mandatory to
all
maintainers and "kill all *announce lists".
Alternative would be to kill all "devel/testing lists" in favor of one
single list all maintainers and devs can not avoid being subscribed too.
Ralf