Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> writes: > On 11/5/10 7:26 AM, "Graham Percival" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I repeat: do you (not necessarily "David", but "anybody") agree >> that an OSS project can, in theory, have some kind of private >> mailing list? > > I believe that private mailing lists for an OSS project are useful and > that LilyPond should have them.
I never stated differently: I pointed out that for various administrative decisions, private lists (or mailing aliases) relevant to those particular admininstrative purposes are clearly appropriate. However, we are not talking about such lists. What we are talking about is a single list for all those purposes for which membership is apparently defined rather vaguely by "project members considered sane/safe/trustable/reasonable". As I said, I don't feel particular emotional about the issue of that list. What does annoy me if people consider it necessary to construct strawmen and invent different theoretical issues for the purpose of getting approval for the real issue. I consider this an indirect insult of my intelligence, and I prefer direct insults (that was probably too easy to guess). They are easier to address. At the current point of time, my main impulse would be to just treat that as a non-issue: I can't be bothered worrying about every group of people who, for whatever reason, consider it desirable to communicate without including me. It would appear that Valentin feels more strongly about that issue or non-issue. In light of that, it might be more polite to discuss use and membership of the actually existing (and apparently offending) mailing list and its inclusion criteria instead of watering down the issue by discussing hypothetical mailing lists with well-defined purpose and inclusion criteria based on technical necessities. If there's not much to say presently about the issue at hand, not saying much is also an option. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
