180109 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > During the last Gentoo council meeting, the decision was made > to implement changes to the gentoo-dev mailing list [1]. > These changes affect only the gentoo-dev mailing list > and will come into effect on 23 January 2018. > > * Subscribing to the list and receiving list mail remains as it is now. > * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers and > whitelisted additional participants. > * Whitelisting requires that one developer vouches for you. We intend this > to be as unbureaucratic as possible. > * Obviously, repeated off-topic posting as well as behaviour against the > Code of Conduct [2] will lead to revocation of the posting permission. > > If, as a non-developer, you want to participate in a discussion > on gentoo-dev, > - either reply directly to the author of a list mail and ask him/her to > forward your message, > - or ask any Gentoo developer of your choice to get you whitelisted. > [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20171210-summary.txt > [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Code_of_conduct
I'm very sorry that Council approved this proposal & hope that it will soon see sense & rescind it. As an ordinary user since 2003, I've subscribed to user + dev lists & have rarely encountered bad behaviour on either : it looks as if a sledge-hammer is being used to crack a nut. I followed the recent discussion here, but didn't offer comment, as there seemed to be little rationale or evidence behind the proposal & I didn't expect Council to pay any attention. That said, I would like to be able to offer my views on the dev list, which is likely to be rarely & will always be polite, as I have done occasionally during the past 15 years . Is one of the devs willing to sponsor me ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
