Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

Russell King
2005-01-03T18:30:49Z

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:54:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > If we must, I guess it's fine, but I expect *you* to provide the support
> > to people to people who don't know where to go for it if *you* remove this.
>
> I'm sometimes doing patches that cover many files, and I want to Cc the
> patches to the developers in question.
>
> If after sending 10 patches I get 5 "this is a subscribers-only list"
> mails, I'm not going to subscribe to 5 lists, forward the patches to
> them and unsubscribe again after this (and repeat this if there's some
> discussion regarding one of these patches).
>
> In my experience, the best solution is a list policy that allows
> subscribers to post and requires moderator approval for non-members.
> This policy that is already used by several lists listed in MAINTAINERS
> is IMHO a good compromise between avoiding spam and allowing
> non-subscribers to post to the list.

Well, that's precisely what happens with these lists - your post ends
up in the moderator approval queue. They do generally find their way
from there into the appropriate peoples mailboxes (iow, mine).

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core