On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:18:24PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:56:40 PM Jono Bacon wrote: > > Quite some time ago (2006 I believe), we instituted a policy that only > > members of ubuntu-dev could post to ubuntu-devel without express moderator > > approval. Recently I have been noticing quite a few non-developers posting > > to the list - was this policy changed? > > > > I have just been noticing that the discussion has become a little less > > focused than it used to be. I also appreciate the irony of this as I am not > > an ubuntu-dev, but my concern is not about rejecting all non ubuntu-dev > > folks, just that it seems a greater regularity of non ubuntu-dev posts of > > late. > > Posts have from non-developers have always been allowed, they are just > moderated and released after moderator review. AIUI, moderators have also > whitelisted some non-developers after a good experience of valuable > contribution. I don't think that should change.
Yep. We do continue to reject posts that are unsuitable or more suitable elsewhere, too. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board