Re: release-team-lurkers: for people who can read and not respond

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:37 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> The release-team mailing list is intended for private discussions
> between release-team members. It should not be interesting as anything
> that is important, we'll either announce or bring to an appropriate
> mailing list.
> 
> The release-team was not open for subscribing for 2 reasons:
> 1. We want to discuss things amongst ourselves, not immediately already
> have replies from non-release team members
> 2. We should take discussions to appropriate mailing lists; we don't
> want to create any need for anyone to be on this mailing list
> 
> As we noticed that people still wanted to subscribe to the release-team
> list, we've setup a release-team-lurkers mailing list as a test.
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team-lurkers
> 
> If you wanted to follow and can *refrain* from taking part in
> discussions, subscribe to above list and you'll get a copy of all
> release-team emails.
> 
> The archives will remain at:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/
> 
> Note that release-team-lurkers is a test. We will remove the entire
> mailing list if we think it has a bad effect.

You could also have made the mailing-list private, and subscribed gmane
to it. That way the archives would be accessible to the majority without
resorting to having to setup a new mailing-list.