Re: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Marcus Metzler wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach writes:
>  > Marcus Metzler wrote:
>  > > Linus Torvalds writes:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Bug reports should be more important to the recipient than to the sender. 
>  > >  > Anything you do to make it more of a bother is WRONG. 
>  > > 
>  > > That's true. And being on the linux-dvb list I can't see why they
>  > > would want to give it as a maintainer address. 
>  > > AFAIR, recently there was only one guy from convergence sending in
>  > > patches for the kernel anyway.
>  > 
>  > Someone has to do the job, and IMHO Michael does it very well.
>  > Why do you think it would be a good idea if every patch would
>  > be submitted by a differnt person?
> 
> Who said that. If only one poerson submits, why not give his address
> as maintainer.

Because that one person might go on vacation, or other events keep
her from processing her mail. You would hate it if your patches would
get lost or unnecessarily delayed, don't you?

> But how will the person submitting a patch get feedback about the
> patch when he or she is not on the list. I don't think a list is a
> good idea as a maintainer address.

Acknowledged.

> The problem is not that the patches may or may not go to the list, you
> can always forward them anyway. The problem is that some people not
> familiar with DVB may have patches but are not that interested in
> DVB that they would like to join the list. 
> So, you don't have to open the list. You just have to give a different
> maintainer address, like dvb-maintainer@convergence.de.

OK, we did that now, but for reasons stated above it is
a list, not a single person.

Johannes