Welcome to the minority, Joshua. :) - Morgan
--- Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Morgan Delagrange http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs http://jakarta.apache.org/commons http://axion.tigris.org http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
