> From: Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:37 PM
> Sorry if this has been discussed before (I just subscribed), but I don't > understand why [email protected] would be a closed list. We have > plenty of other places in the ASF to discuss private issues (board@, > members@, pmc@, committers@ for announcements, etc). It is hard for me to > think of any issue that we would want to discuss on community that would > need to be private only to committers. > > Joshua. community@ is the only ASF wide list that is opt-in and not bound to a certain topic (like infrastructure@ for example). committers@ always reaches _all_ committers if they want to participate or not. So that list is not an option. Anyway, there are arguments for and against, a bunch of them are in the reorg@ archives. In the community@ archives you can find the vote on whether this list should be open or closed. HTH, Sander
