On 10/22/2010 3:19 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Arjan van de Ven<[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Foster, Dawn M wrote:
I agree that you can't protect users from themselves, but you can put
the decision solely in their hands. If they subscribe to a list and then
forget what it is, this becomes their mistake. If a moderator lets it
through or
if we let people who aren't subscribed post to the list, it takes the
decision
out of the user's hands. I prefer to let each user make their own decision
and
then be accountable for it. By requiring subscription and email
confirmation,
you can be certain that at some point each user made a conscious decision
to join the list.
btw for the meego-kernel I really want subscriber only. I want people who
post patches to get not just the review comments
on their code, but also on everyone elses code so that they won't make the
same mistakes. I want them to read the announcements
that are made there, etc etc.
You can't do that; subscription != membership.
People can subscribe, and disable mail delivery, therefore they would
not receive other people reviews.
Besides, in order to be baby-sitting newbies, you would be impairing
people that already know the process and send mail to lkml, CC say
linux-arm, and meego-kernel. Even if the poster is subscribed, the
people replying to the mail might not, and a mess would be created.
Even worst, if the poster is not subscribed, meego-kernel wouldn't
even receive the original message.
What would happen is that people would not CC meego-kernel.
So meego-kernel would be isolated from the rest of kernel development.
meego-kernel (heck, MeeGo as project) is NOT for kernel development.
I don't WANT meego-kernel to be CC'd on lkml submissions. Things need to
get hashed out on LKML first.
THEN people who care about meego can ask for a backport.
MeeGo is a distribution where we integrate things, not where kernel code
gets developed.
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