On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Joe Schaefer wrote: > We did NOT vote to close the list. We voted to limit access to > committers AND INVITED participants. If Andrew does not wish > to INVITE Tim's participation, it is _Andrew_ who is blocking Tim's > access here.
That is not an open list. A country club where you need to have an invitiation to join is not an open club. A software program that you need an invitation to use or modify is not open source. Allowing invited guests does not solve the problem. It only puts it under the rug by having a mechanism to quite people who make noise. Personally, I'm not sure there are that many non-committers who would want to subscribe to this list. But the whole idea of having the main "Apache Community" being closed to non-committers is repugnant to me and is completely counter to my definition of the Apache community. I don't care anything about this particular case. I care about the principal. Incidentally, the "Apache Community" includes, at minimum, everyone listed here: http://www.apache.org/foundation/roles.html Joshua.
