Moderated dev list?

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:57:17AM -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek at lichota.net> wrote:
> > Micah J. Cowan napisal(a):
> > > (This was in response a message in the Freedom/most-offensive-thing
> > > thread).
> > >
> > > Once again, I'd like to know how feasible it might be to make
> > > ubuntu-devel a moderated list. There seems to be a very high
> > > noise-to-signal ratio here, where the majority of posts seem to belong
> > > more to sounder or ubuntu than to ubuntu-devel.
> >
> > I think it is a great idea.
> >
> >         Krzysztof
> 
> I am going to respectively disagree with the idea of a moderated
> -devel list. While it might solve some short term issues with
> inappropriate posts, the long term damage it will cause the project is
> simply too great. We are an open community, not a gated one. Problems
> should dealt with at the individual level, not to technical one.

I understand what you're saying. However, I don't agree that making the
list moderated represents a significant impedement to user
participation. If anything, the idea is to facilitate such.

The moderator(s) would hopefully redirect legitimate but off-topic posts
to the correct forums, allowing ubuntu-devel to have the "formal
board-meeting style" that is intended for it
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelFAQ).

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Micah J. Cowan
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