ubuntu-devel posts from non-developers

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:18:24PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:56:40 PM Jono Bacon wrote:
> > Quite some time ago (2006 I believe), we instituted a policy that only
> > members of ubuntu-dev could post to ubuntu-devel without express moderator
> > approval. Recently I have been noticing quite a few non-developers posting
> > to the list - was this policy changed?
> > 
> > I have just been noticing that the discussion has become a little less
> > focused than it used to be. I also appreciate the irony of this as I am not
> > an ubuntu-dev, but my concern is not about rejecting all non ubuntu-dev
> > folks, just that it seems a greater regularity of non ubuntu-dev posts of
> > late.
> 
> Posts have from non-developers have always been allowed, they are just 
> moderated and released after moderator review.  AIUI, moderators have also 
> whitelisted some non-developers after a good experience of valuable 
> contribution.  I don't think that should change.

Yep.  We do continue to reject posts that are unsuitable or more
suitable elsewhere, too.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]