On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:01:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes:
> > Someone complained about a lengthy off-topic discussion taking place on > > debian-private, and suggested to move it to a public mailing list. > A follow-up to this. In response to the question of why so many threads > start on debian-private in the first place, I proposed the following two > explanations: > * debian-private does not contain irritating trolls. While this may indeed be a motivation for some, I absolutely disagree with that assessment. debian-private suffers from the problem that unlike every other mailing list our project uses, new members are autosubscribed to it when they clear the NM queue. As a result, it's perpetually beset by people who have long since stopped being active in more appropriate project discussion forums but who don't have the good sense to (or can't figure out how to) unsubscribe from -private. We should stop autosubscribing new project members to -private and leave it to them to figure out the db.debian.org subscription interface. And we should mass unsubscribe everyone currently on there and let them find their own way back. > That means that some discussions can be had more easily on > debian-private, or at least with less frustration and annoyance, because > the audience who can talk is restricted to people who have some > investment in the project. In practice I think the level of ongoing investment implied is very low. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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