[UbuntuWomen] Non-members posting! [was] Re: Fwd: [Blueprint community-1311-ubuntu-women] Ubuntu Women Trusty Goals

[Alex Muntada]

Let me make a quick summary of the technical details regarding
this debate so far...

The issue comes from:

 a. ubuntu-women list seems to have a discard non-member post
    policy, as far as i can tell;
 b. ~ubuntu-women team on LP has 347 members;
 c. some of them are not subscribed to ubuntu-women list or
    use different e-mail addresses on LP and the list;
 d. when those people change any blueprint in ~ubuntu-women,
    the message sent to ubuntu-women list gets discarded;

These solutions have been proposed:

 S1. enable the moderation queue instead of discarding non-member
     posts on ubuntu-women list and bring more volunteers to help
     with moderation if needed;
 S2. keep the discard non-member posts policy and encourage people
     to subscribe to ubuntu-women list with NOMAIL option;
 S3. add verified non-member addresses to accept_these_non_members
     option in ubuntu-women list setup;

These concerns have been raised:

  C1. S1 would bring to much spam to the queue;
  C2. in S2, blueprint contributors may not know about ubuntu-women
      list or may not know/want to subscribe to it, even with NOMAIL;

The issue here is to find the right balance between C1 and C2.
An approach that agile methologies suggest in cases like this,
when there's no win-win situation, is to try for a short while
the opposite that's currently being done and see how it works.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Alex