On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Sander Striker wrote: > 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.
The fact that it is the only ASF-wide list for discussion seems to be an argument for opening it, not closing it. > 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. Yah. Right. And where would I find those archives? One good reason for opening a list is it allows us to have public archives. Sorry for rehashing an old issue, but I just can't imagine a topic I would want to discuss on here that I wouldn't want to be public. Apache is an open organization. All discussion should be open unless there is a very specific reason otherwise. And the only reasons I can think of are security, legal, and making decisions on "trust" (which I always put in quotes). None of that should be happening here. If I were to write a set of Apache principles, "Open discussion and debate" would certainly be one of them. We aren't following that here. Joshua.
