On 03/22/2018 12:56 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Rich Freeman schrieb: > >> Actually, I think it is more of a technical constraint. It is >> basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since >> all they need to do is roll up a new email address. >> >> I can think of various arguments for whitelisting or not whitelisting, >> but it seems silly to blacklist. > > And how often did it actually happen that blacklisting was evaded on -dev > mailing list?
we are aware of at least one case of evasion like this within the relatively near past, but it is more a matter of principle as we don't know if there are sock-puppets etc around. The main things is really, the bar for whiltelisting is very low, you just need a current dev to vouch for you, which is similiar to editbugs and the #-dev channel on IRC. Most discussion should anyways happen on -project ML, whereby the -dev ML is technical in nature. So there isn't any real restriction being imposed here. Most contributions should happen via patches on b.g.o -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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