On Sun, 2021-04-04 at 16:37 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 03:09:10PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 12:18 +0200, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > > > > People without voting rights repeatedly tried to lobby or push for a > > > certain agenda on this list. > > > Welcome to Debian. > > People are free to express their opinion, even if they are not owning > > an @debian.org email address. And that is actually a very good thing. > > The interested reader is able to filter messages and maybe maintain a > > list of people to ignore if needed. It might be annoying for you, but > > free speech is not always fun. > > People are free to express their opinion. That does not mean the Debian > Project is obligated to provide a platform for those opinions on the > debian-vote mailing list, which exists to facilitate discussions among > voting members of the Debian Project regarding matters that will be voted > on.
There are lots of active people in Debian who do not have voting right, but at least I for my part want to hear their opinion if they want to share it. And it would be a shame if those opinions would not be heard. > Non-voting posters to debian-vote are almost exclusively outside agitators > and there's no reason subscribing to debian-vote should mean receiving their > bullshit in our mailboxes. Do you have any statistics on that? Personally I don't mind to ignore some trolls, but if it bothers people too much, I also wouldn't mind if somebody would implement a filter that only accepts mails from active contributors. Although I guess that even discusing what the requirements for such an active contributor are, will take more time than ignoring some trolls once a year. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
