Hi Lubomir,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:04:26PM +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Mailing lists certainly don't scale well for patches and many people.
> GRUB has a bugtracker on Savannah -- shouldn't that one be used?

Yes, but the developers tend to lurk on grub-devel instead.  I think it's
more effective.

> > Unfortunately, opening it to non-subscribers results in tons of spam coming 
> > to
> > the list, which makes it unusable.
> 
> Ever heard of moderated lists? (Surely moderation usually takes a lot of
> word, so I mostly flush all messages pending moderation for some time.
> Exception is when I am notified that a message from non-subscriber is
> coming via BTS or IRC. This would be exactly that case.

Let's say I think moderated lists are fine as long as I'm not the one who's
gonna moderate them ;-)

> GRUB upstream would have to reconsider the way they accept patches [...]

I keep thinking the same.  Not my decision though.

-- 
Robert Millan

"The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the
 legal evasion of the license [...].  That's the provision in section
 1 regarding keys. [...]  We say one thing: when you sell somebody a
 home... give him the keys"  -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3



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