On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 09:38, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Three views exist presently on this list's "openness". The purpose of > this list is to fascillitate community development among the various > disconneted groups in Apache. Then to further discuss issues that > affect the community as a whole. > > View 1: Open the list completely, anyone can subscribe, post and read > the archive > View 2: Keep the list open only to committers, members and invitees > (highly contributive developers and users) so far as posting goes, > however allow anyone to read or view the archive (and include an archive > such as MARC, etc. > View 3: Close the list to all except members and committers. > > View 1: +1 Sam, Steven Noles > View 2: +1 Andy
+1 I see no reason to not have an open archive, but am fine with the list being restricted, with exceptions on a case by case basis (although for every exception I'm inclined to ask, so why isn't this valuable contributor a committer? Oh yes, that can of worms again...) > View 3: +1 Ken > > Andy: > I'd like to protect the list from random posters. If a user or someone > wants to get in, then fine let them in if they have something to > contribute, but this will prevent someone posting a random "Gee how do I > use tomcat" or "here is what you should do but I have never and will > never contribute to apache in any realy sense of the word" posts that > often degrade the quality of the list. This will also help prevent a > personal experience of mine from repeating itself when I first tried to > get involved, where I posted a simple question and got flamed without > ever knowing the context rhyme or reasons... > > Please state your view and vote your conscience. > > -Andy > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
