Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-17 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2007.07.13 18:12, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 08:34 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > We're voting on this next council meeting so if you have input, > now > > > would be the time. > > > > Really, I don't like the idea...the li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-17 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:11:19 Duncan wrote: > Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:01:53 -0600: > > Why don't we create the gentoo-project mailing > > list, and, you know, actually wait a bit to see how that actually goes. > > Then we

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-17 Thread Duncan
"Thomas Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:41:51 -0400: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:54:44 -0400, "Daniel Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> I do like the "gentoo-politics" idea that came up a few weeks ago, >> which was to move politics o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-17 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:22:09AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: > What will you do when users start sending mail from dev addresses? Ban the sender's address :-] cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org Gentoo Forums - http://forums.gentoo.org forum-mods (at) ge

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:02:07 +0100 > Peter Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The moderators should get the final word, end of. > > That would only work if Gentoo could find decent moderator Sorry I know I said "ignore thread" but really: just cos the forum mods banned you it

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Just because developers develop because they want to doesn't mean >> they dont want to be part of a community, if that wasn't the case >> then none of the current developers would have originally been part >> of the userbase to begin with. > > What relevance does this ha

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0100, George Prowse wrote: >> This is going to crash and burn but wouldn't it be an ideal job >> description for the proctors? Instead of telling people off they could >> just stop people posting. That way you dont even get to know that they >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Torsten Veller wrote: * Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. What will you do when users start sending mail from dev addresses? There's nothing to prevent that n

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Torsten Veller
* Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only > devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. What will you do when users start sending mail from dev addresses? Thanks, Torsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:34 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > Are you really claiming that Gentoo could possibly function as an > organisation without the users? Who ever said that? Please don't read your own whatever into what is being said. I know I, for one, don't really care what your opinion is on

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Reich
Mike Doty wrote: All- We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate in bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the gentoo-project list will be created to take ov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:49:23 +0200, "Jakub Moc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > __ __ _ > |__ / _ \| \/ |/ ___| | > / / | | | |\/| | | _| | > / /| |_| | | | | |_| |_| > /\___/|_| |_|\(_) > > Anyone tell me how can I get rid of this junk in my mailbox? Where's the > d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Jakub Moc
__ __ _ |__ / _ \| \/ |/ ___| | / / | | | |\/| | | _| | / /| |_| | | | | |_| |_| /\___/|_| |_|\(_) Anyone tell me how can I get rid of this junk in my mailbox? Where's the damned -announce list? Please, stop feeding this kind of debates down everyone's throat. :

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:34:31 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also happens that bugs are reported, and patches provided, by > users. Not to mention documentation written, support provided on irc > and in forums, which are the envy of every OS out there. Oh and the > small matter of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello Steve! On Monday, 16. July 2007 18:17:00 Steve Long wrote: > Sure, but since you're only doing exactly what you want, when you want, > why do you guys keep bleating about how much work you have, and what > extravagant demands us lusers make on you? Now, now. You're a nice guy on IRC so what

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Andrew Gaffney wrote: > You misunderstand. I'm not saying that all non-devs can get bent and their > opinions be damned. I'm just saying that at the core, Gentoo is still the > same as it was "back in the day". Gentoo isn't a commercial distribution, > and nobody pays us, so we can do anything we w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Alin Năstac
Steve Long wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > >> Matthias Langer wrote: >> >>> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on >>> this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is >>> becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers.

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Long
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Matthias Langer wrote: >> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on >> this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is >> becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. > > Gentoo's always been exclusively

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-16 Thread Duncan
Kumba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:13:31 -0400: > @Council > As for the rest of thisthread..., mayhaps it would be wise for > Council and Infra to postpone the moderation idea for a few months? (let > 2007-2008 council handle the matter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Kumba
Duncan wrote: I like the "gentoo-project" (yes, that's better than politics) idea as well, and believe it /could/ solve the problem here, given a couple conditions are met. One, -project is not to be required reading for devs as -dev is. Devs (and others) can ignore it if they wish. Two,

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Long
Christina Fullam wrote: > I suppose the problem is high-volume and excessive flaming/trolling/OT. > The proposed solution asks that every developer take an active role, > yes, so that could easily equal more work - but I have little doubts > that there are developers that will take an interest in

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Duncan
Will Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:54:10 +1000: > At the moment gentoo-dev is a "one big noisy room" forum. This is seen > as a "problem" > > Propose solutions have included: > > 1) The "Let's divide up the room" solution - (and so

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-15 Thread Duncan
Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:54:44 -0400: > I do like the "gentoo-politics" idea that came up a few weeks ago, which > was to move politics off gentoo-dev and to another list, but I'd view it > from another perspective (and avo

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Christina Fullam wrote: > I suppose the problem is high-volume and excessive flaming/trolling/OT. > The proposed solution asks that every developer take an active role, > yes, so that could easily equal more work - but I have little doubts > that there are developers that will take an interest in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:16:36 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christina Fullam wrote: > > I think everyone is overlooking the part included previously: > > "An additional method discussed was to have all non-dev emails on a > > timeout, pick a number of hours, and then the email if not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 10:25 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > -core Internal Private List, Public R/O after period of time > > -core Internal Private List, Public R/O after period of time > > No. -core should not ever be public. It's not for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Josh Saddler
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > -core Internal Private List, Public R/O after period of time > -core Internal Private List, Public R/O after period of time No. -core should not ever be public. It's not for development anyway. -core contains things like personal issues the developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 10:16 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > so all > you've done is made posts from non-dev accounts time delayed. Why? Time delayed -dev doesn't make sense for anyone. IMHO this makes sense. -core Internal Private List, Public R/O after period of time -devInter

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-14 Thread Ryan Hill
Christina Fullam wrote: > I think everyone is overlooking the part included previously: > "An additional method discussed was to have all non-dev emails on a > timeout, pick a number of hours, and then the email if not moderated > would be released. (non-dev sends his email, time period expires and

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 08:39 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> I just read an article about this [1]. To summarize, in a volunteer >> community, there needs to be more people enforcing the rules than >> people breaking them. A small group of proctors doesn't work -- we need

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Long
Ned Ludd wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 02:17 +0200, Robert Buchholz wrote: > >> I have to second the voices that a lot of user mails are productive. >> I did >> not do any stats, but I feel that most mails to -dev are currently by >> Gentoo >> devs anyway, so it will not seriously reduce the amo

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Simon Cooper
As another invisible AT, theres a couple of points I want to make about blanket blacklisting: 1. gentoo-dev has an outside image. The current, anyone-can-post, projects the image that the developers are happy to receive outside opinions that may be different to 'how things are done'. This is,

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Markus Ullmann
Vieri Di Paola schrieb: > I already contacted jokey (Markus) several months ago > via e-mail and we agreed that he would have setup > "proxy maintenance" for the shorewall ebuilds so that > I could contribute patches and learn from his > suggestions. We never got to do anything because we > simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:12:27 -0700 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am so waiting for my term to end on the Council so I can procmail > this list to /dev/null and never have to deal with this sort of crap > again. Sure, I'll miss some important information, but the signal to > noise

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 08:34 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > We're voting on this next council meeting so if you have input, now > > would be the time. > > Really, I don't like the idea...the list has been calm for some time > now, the discussions were le

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We're voting on this next council meeting so if you have input, now > would be the time. Really, I don't like the idea...the list has been calm for some time now, the discussions were lengthy sometimes but not aggressive. V-Li -- http://www.gentoo.org/ http://

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Duncan
Daniel Ostrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:41:33 -0700: > 1). Create 1 (ONE) new list, which, for the purposes of this discussion > I will call it gentoo-dev-info (the name matters not). The requirement > for subscription for all devs would

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:01:53 -0600: > Why don't we create the gentoo-project mailing > list, and, you know, actually wait a bit to see how that actually goes. > Then we can talk about how best to handle -dev. One shit at

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Ryan Hill
Daniel Ostrow wrote: > I as a developer find it very difficult to cut though what I consider > noise to find the bits that I consider important to being able to > continue being an effective developer on a list that I am *required* to > be subscribed to. We have considered the likes of a moderated

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Ryan Hill
Mike Doty wrote: > All- > > We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only > devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate > in > bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the > gentoo-project list will be crea

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Long
Markus Ullmann wrote: > Hey ;) > > As an extension of it. What about this: > > _All_ posts from -dev go in CC to -project. Even if the posts are > moderated, they always appear there. That way you can have a (moderated) > subset as -dev and people who want to get their words and fights out, > ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 00:55 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Mike Doty wrote: > > We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where > > only devs can post, > > Restricting freedom to post is like setting up surveilance and censorship > against terrorism. No, it is nothing

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Mike Doty wrote: > We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where > only devs can post, Restricting freedom to post is like setting up surveilance and censorship against terrorism. I hate it when the "rulers" think they can impose such decisions upon the people and do n

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Markus Ullmann
Hey ;) As an extension of it. What about this: _All_ posts from -dev go in CC to -project. Even if the posts are moderated, they always appear there. That way you can have a (moderated) subset as -dev and people who want to get their words and fights out, can do that on -project? Greetz -Jokey

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Tiziano Müller wrote: > Let's go for censorship! Let's vote for gagging those users who don't > have any idea of development and those ex-devs who think they still have > anything to say. Yawn... > > And to give that comment a technical side: > - Do you think that any dev will regularly check fo

[gentoo-dev] Re: ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Tiziano Müller
Mike Doty schrieb: > All- > > We're going to change the -dev mailing list from completely open to where only > devs can post, but any dev could moderate a non-dev post. devs who moderate > in > bad posts will be subject to moderation themselves. in addition the > gentoo-project list will be cr