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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: drop moderated sheepdog mailing
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To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>, Liu Yuan <namei.unix@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On 03/21/2018 10:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote:
> The sheepdog mailing list is setup to stop and queue messages from
> non-subscribers, pending moderator approval. Unfortunately it seems
> that the moderation queue is not actively dealt with. Even when message=
s
> are approved, the sender is never added to the whitelist, so every
> future mail the same sender continues to get stopped for moderation.
>=20
> MAINTAINERS entries should be responsive and not uneccessarily block
> mails from QEMU contributors, so drop the sheepdog mailing list.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Perhaps the sheepdog list would like to know what we are doing, along=20
with a heads up that their list policy is unfriendly.  But I can't be=20
the one to tell them - if I were to add the sheepdog list in cc, I'd get=20
moderated.

It's annoyed me enough times that I agree with the change.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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