On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > During the last Gentoo council meeting, the decision was made to implement > changes to the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. > > These changes affect only the gentoo-dev mailing list, and will come into > effect on 23 January 2018. > > * Subscribing to the list and receiving list mail remains as it is now. > * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and > whitelisted additional participants. > * Whitelisting requires that one developer vouches for you. We intend this > to be as unbureaucratic as possible. > * Obviously, repeated off-topic posting as well as behaviour against the > Code of Conduct [2] will lead to revocation of the posting permission. > > If, as a non-developer, you want to participate in a discussion on > gentoo-dev, > - either reply directly to the author of a list mail and ask him/her to > forward your message, > - or ask any Gentoo developer of your choice to get you whitelisted. > > If, as a developer, you want to have someone whitelisted, please comment on > bug 644070 [3]. Similar to Bugzilla editbugs permission, if you are vouching > for a contributor you are expected to keep an eye on their activity.
It seems like the obvious way this fails is some Gentoo developer acks one of the problem people. I don't think that's particularly unlikely. Then what do we do?
