Am Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, um 21:56:24 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > > 2) Agree that an OSS project can, in theory, have a private > > mailing list. And apologize. > > *sigh* I do apologize if you felt offended (which you obviously do). > However, I can assure you that my goal is not to make you feel that > way. > Please also note that, whilst I may on occasion feel like there's a > lack of respect towards some people in the community, I am constantly > taking into account the fact that I am probably overly sensitive, and > thus I haven't been demanding any apology or whatever. [...] > (OK, non-grumpy version now.) Have you read my last comment? What I > take issue with is not the fact that private MLs exist, but the fact > that, in the LilyPond project, nobody has ever bothered telling people > about it. (At least, from where I'm standing.)
I'm actually a member of that list, but I wasn't even aware of it (well, I now remember that I joined it a while ago, but have since forgotten it completely). So I don't think that any ill-will is involved or anything. I would rather think that nobody was thinking about that hacker list, since it is so low traffic (e.g. 2010 has 4 messages in 1 thread, 2008 has 11 messages in 2 threads). The archives show that in 2010 only September had some messages (4 mails to the list), which are all titled "lilypond-hackers revival"... And before that, in October/November 2009 there were some mails about how to handle someone, who back then didn't really show proper behavior. Such things should IMO not be part of a public mailing list, as they are really sensitive topics and might harm a person's reputation if they are available for the whole world to read in Google etc. The existence of such a list only becomes relevant (and one only remembers it) when there is a sensitive topic to be discussed, which should not be available for the whole public to be misunderstood. See also Graham's explanation in http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.org/msg30917.html Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel