On May 10, 2009, at 23:43, Glynn Foster wrote: > > On 11/05/2009, at 7:55 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> >> On May 10, 2009, at 18:26, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> >>> Alan Burlison wrote: >>>> >>>> And I've already indicated there is no such 'policy', the mailing >>>> list settings are the responsibility of the list owner, not the >>>> OGB or the website community. The last time centralised list >>>> management was mooted it was roundly rejected by the community. >>>> The OSO communities need to decide either to manage their lists >>>> properly or to ask for the task to be done centrally, but they >>>> can't have it both ways. >>> >>> And I'm saying that there *ought* to be a policy. Right now the >>> complete lack of any handling whatsoever results in an >>> unacceptable situation IMO, where an active list, with folks >>> willing to volunteer, can't get administration because one person >>> has either left the community is disinterested in properly >>> moderating the discussions. >> >> Feel free to construct and propose a policy for the OGB to >> consider. I am not personally interested in doing that work since I >> think the right approach in the current list infrastructure is to >> leave each list manager to make their own decisions on how to use >> MailMan. Once we have a list manager which uses OpenSolaris logins >> I might change that view. >> >> And I'm less a Cavalier than a Roundhead. > > I agree with Garrett. If someone is willing to step up, volunteer > their time, and moderate a list so that auto-reject can be turned > off, then I think we should be willing to accommodate that from an > infrastructure point of view. Quite how that works if there's any > politics involved, I don't know. Perhaps Alan might be able to > generate some stats on who the poor list administrators are in terms > of when they last logged in?
I really don't see what the issue is with asking the OGB to Make It So in such exceptional cases? Why all the fuss? The only real role of the OGB is after all to handle exceptions... S.
