Ter pretty much summed it up - both it and the irc channel are fairly low-volume, and the 'topic' is restricted to only 'personal' or 'meta' matters; such as discussion of approval of commit rights.
It's pretty standard practice across open source projects with more than 5 committers for the committers to have a mailing list for these purposes, since realtime chats aren't practical across timezones. Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev- > boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Teravus Ovares > Sent: Monday, 19 October 2009 12:22 PM > To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] [opensim-core] snowcrash's contributions > > As far as there being opensim-core, yes. It exists. As far as it > being Secret.. it's not .. Nor it it intended to be secret. > It's been discussed before on IRC and in previous e-mail on > opensim-dev. It has OpenSimulator core as it's members. > > It has a purpose as well, > Just to be clear: > > * The core list is a list where interpersonal and political issues > between the core developers are discussed. Despite how it may > appear, we don't always agree on everything or even like each other > from time to time. We would prefer to keep this interpersonal drama > from distracting development. > > * The core list is also where core actions are decided upon, like > voting on a new user's entry into core > > * We also discuss opensimulator.org server configurations (like using > git for our repository) > > * Discussing the Development of OpenSimulator, however, is not > appropriate in opensim-core. That's what opensim-dev is for. > > We also have a core IRC channel #opensim-core on freenode where the > same rules apply. > > Regards > > Teravus > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > there is no secret mailing list, i don't know what he is talking > about I > > suspect that email came from the opensim-users email list. Lets not > keep > > feeding this thread, Crista asked everyone to ignore it. so lets not > have > > this blow up, its not related to OpenSimulator development. > > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Kyle G <cre...@reactiongrid.com> > wrote: > >> > >> There's a secret mailing list to discuss such issue? Wow. That's > >> interesting. I feel like Ryan now too. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de > >> [mailto:opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Ryan > McDougall > >> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:26 PM > >> To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > >> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] [opensim-core] snowcrash's contributions > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes > >> <lo...@ics.uci.edu> wrote: > >> > dr scofield wrote: > >> > > >> > to me this is another piece from the legal FUD department > (reminiscent > >> > of the "money" discussions). > >> > > >> > > >> > It's very easy to brush difficult issues under the rug of "I don't > care, > >> > this is ethics, not technical, hence it's FUD". You're entitled to > that > >> > stand. Give your -1 on whatever is being proposed and stay out of > the > >> > rest > >> > of the conversation, instead of trying to "FUD the FUD." Some of > us care > >> > about these difficult issues. Having a co-copyright holder who > releases > >> > an > >> > addon to opensim under a discriminatory license (in this case > based on > >> > country, but could be based on race, gender, sexual > orientation,...) is > >> not > >> > something some of us can ignore. Unclear if/what we should do > about it, > >> but > >> > clear that this is bugging a lot of people, not just core devs, > and > >> > hence > >> it > >> > should be discussed not ignored. > >> > > >> > Crista > >> > >> Nationality, or more to the point of the clause, political > >> disposition, can be changed; unlike race or gender -- which is the > >> kind of the point, to make a political stand in the face of > potential > >> human catastrophe. :D > >> > >> Have I mentioned that I'm not a fan of the secret mailing list? ... > >> Here I am feeling like a member of a community, but largely without > >> voice on the crucial matter of eccentric licenses(?)! :P > >> > >> Cheers, > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Opensim-dev mailing list > >> Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Opensim-dev mailing list > >> Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev