Re: gnome-hackers is now closed

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> 
> Ok, so now to this question which you may want to ask now:
> 
> "So, what's that's the plan for gnome-hackers and when can
>  we open it to the public ?"
> 
> Well, before we can open gnome-hackers to the public we need
> to make sure that all people who are currently subscribed to
> gnome-private are aware of the change. This means, as long
> as people are still posting to gnome-hackers, we cannot open
> it since we'd risk that someone is accidentally posting
> confidental material to it.
> 
> My estimate time-frame for this is two weeks after the last
> person attempted to post to gnome-hackers.
> 


I strenuously object. Consider:

* Nothing that has been posted on gnome-hackers since we created
  gnome-private has needed to be confidential.

* Hardly anything on gnome-hackers is confidential ever (I can't
  remember any truly confidential posts in a long time). I don't
  understand the paranoia about leaking confidential information since
  the whole reason we are opening up gnome-hackers is that almost
  nothing on it really needs to be confidential, or should be for that
  matter.

* All the attempted mails to gnome-hackers were followups to old
  threads (threads which had no need to be confidential).

* Two weeks after last attempted post could go on forever.


I am much more worried about people getting in the habit of posting to
gnome-private with technical issues that should be on gnome-hackers,
than I am about someone accidentally posting something confidential to
gnome-hackers. I strongly suggest that we make gnome-hackers a
publicly archived list right now and start using it immediately.

 - Maciej