-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 October 2002 09.14, Pam R wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2002 8:44 am, ?ric Bischoff wrote:
> > On the long term, we'll have to think about the policy towards external > > contributors (and especially towards people wanting to report > > misspellings): 1) keep this list moderated as it currently is > > 2) let this list open > > 3) ask people to use the bug tracking system and stop posting to this > > list 4) split the list in two: English writers and English proofreaders > > (and take profit of that occasion to merge kde-docbook with this list) 5) > > any possibility I didn't think about? > > As I see it the only real reason for moderating a list like this one is to > cut out some of the spam; ?ric, how many of the 119 messages were spam? Apparently very few, although, quite a few of them had already been dealt with privately, after people realised their post hadn't got through to the list, thankfully. > But even if 50% of them were rubbish, 119 un-approved messages in several > months is less than one a day, which is such a low rate that I would vote > for making the list open, even if only to avoid the embarrassment of > blocking a message from David Faure for 5 months :-( So long as it stays relatively light in spam, that's ok. I think the "should the list be open" and "Should we encourage people to use bugzilla" are perhaps two different issues. Malcolm votes for bugzilla, and so do I, mostly because I can assign things to a specific rseponsible person if there is one, and because it's so much harder to ignore, or just lose, requests for fixes. > As to splitting the list between English writers & proofreaders, I would be > against that as the proofreaders' mails can often be of interest to writers > but with separate lists one would have to subscribe to both to be sure of > not missing anything! > For roughly the same reason, I would be in favour of merging the > kde-docbook list into this one, presumably there's not that much traffic on > kde-docbook? To both those, I 100% agree. kde-docbook is quite light on traffic, it goes weeks without anything at all, and then there might be an long thread or two on a single topic, easily ignored by those uninterested. - -- Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qCEk/gUyA7PWnacRAgwNAJsHtirFkPiIkfqReDS2gOQj+ZPu8ACfdiuY 4+u74HpkomEigcTvsw8nO2A= =9idH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
