Re: GNOME-hackers-readonly mailing list closing down

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On ส., 2006-03-18 at 20:29 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
> On ศ., 2006-03-17 at 08:19 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
> > Since the policy for the GNOME-hackers list changed a few years ago,
> > this list has not really been necessary. Nowadays, it just seems to be
> > another redundant list with a request queue for the moderator team with
> > a to keep clearing spam out of. So, we're gonna shut it down. Now.
> > 
> 
> OK, I didn't fully understand what I'd taken on when I posted this, so
> it seems I should probably explain how it is set up.
> 
> The 'gnome-hackers' list is a list with two recipients -
> 'gnome-hackers-readonly' and 'gnome-private-members'. There is a short
> list of sender addresses that are allowed to post to the list, but the
> real membership is held in the 'gnome-hackers-readonly' list (and the
> 'gnome-private-members' list).
> 
> Also, 'gnome-private' is just a list with one recipient -
> 'gnome-private-members'. Again, there is a short list of allowed sender
> addresses, but the real membership is actually in the
> 'gnome-private-members' list.
> 
> > I will be removing the list shortly. If any of you reading this are not
> > already subscribed to 'gnome-hackers gnome org', you can do sign up
> > here:
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-hackers
> > 
> 
> Actually, it seems to me that the simplest thing to do would be to copy
> the gnome-private-members membership to gnome-private and to
> gnome-hackers, and to copy the gnome-hackers-readonly membership to
> gnome-hackers.
> 
> We then need to make sure the lists are set to allow members to post,
> and then the '-readonly' and '-members' lists are truly redundant, and
> the 'gnome-hackers' and 'gnome-private' lists will behave more like
> normal mailman lists. Hopefully, this should make things a little more
> 'normal' and less complicated for our moderators and sysadmins :)
> 
> Can anyone see any problems with this?
> 

OK, done. Apologies for the disruption.

--
Ross