Just to chime in with a voice from a regular scientific Debian user: Whether there is a public or private Debian developers mailing list is about as relevant to me as the price of cheese on Venus. I honestly don't feel the community is any more open or closed regardless.
As much as transparency is important; it is more important that we have trust and pragmatism. I trust the developers to make good decisions. Best, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Clint Adams <[email protected]> writes: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:17:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> It's important in order to make the project feel more welcoming and open. > >> I bet that's truer than you think it is. > > It's possible for it to be both true and ironic at the same time. :) > > Also, part of what makes being more welcoming and open hard is that > different people find different things welcoming and open. There are some > obvious basic ground rules (treat everyone decently, don't be > exclusionary), but when it comes to preferences on chatty versus on-topic, > people vary. A lot. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> >
