On 5 May 2011, at 23:18, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 5 May 2011 22:16, <[email protected]> wrote: >> ----- Original Message ---- >> >>> From: Mario Torre <[email protected]> >>> To: Simon Phipps <[email protected]> >>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >>> Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 1:26:36 PM >>> Subject: Re: OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 20011/4/21 >>> >>>> Given we are discussing governance I suggest we drop discuss@ instead. My >>> comments only appear there, for example. >>>> >>>> S. >>> >>> No please, this is an important topic, valid for discuss, not just >>> specific to gb (besides, I don't want to subscribe to the new mailing >>> list in the middle of a thread :). >> >> I think a whole new list for a governance board is silly anyways. Too many >> mailing list are just an annoyance. The governance board of NetBeans uses >> the >> nbdiscuss list which is the NetBeans Discuss list and that works out well. >> No >> separate list needed. Then everything discussing the project is done in one >> simple place. >> >> Nothing the governance board is going to discuss is not going to be about >> discussing the project. Thus, I don't understand the need for such a list. >> Again, just annoying. >> >> Wade >> >> ================== >> Wade Chandler >> Software Engineer and Developer >> NetBeans Dream Team Member and Contributor >> >> http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam >> http://www.netbeans.org >> >> > > I completely agree. There are way too many lists and the only benefit > of this list is it allows Oracle to hide material they don't want > everyone to see.
Personally I am happy to restrict my conspiracy theories just to the places where there are probably conspiracies. Mailing list hierarchy abuse seems the very least of our problems here. S.
