On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 08:20:04PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Once again, you make some excellent points.However if said list has to > be limited to *five* people, I do question the need for a mailing list > at all, rather than merely CCing whomever needs to be CCed.
For clarity: assuming that there were 5 (or even 3) people, you would feel better if we just used private CCing rather than a private mailing list? To my mind, the only difference between a private mailing list and CCing is a trivial question of technical implementation -- but I don't need to understand something to accommodate it. If it makes a difference to you, then that's IMO a point towards the status quo (i.e. me CCing people). > Therefore I have been suggesting that archives could be "declassified" > after a given amount of time (five or seven years seem quite enough > for any sensitive debate to cool off and lose any potential > disruptiveness). The experience of debian-private with "declassifying" has not been terribly positive. > No matter how, a key issue, as you pointed out, is that the list of > people in charge, as well as the general topics they discuss, should > be made public. I think the gnu savannah page is clear: the project administrators are Han-Wen, Jan, and me. At the moment I don't think it's worth discussing additions to that list; there's a lot of other GOP questions that will have a much more immediate effect on development and releases. > And first off, obviously, it should be officially > acknowledged that such non-public discussions exist. That will be handled, one way or another, with this proposal. If we end up with the "private CCing" option, then how about adding my email on the website "contacts" page as "private administrative issues" ? Would that be enough of an official acknowledgement? I'll reiterate that I don't think this is a great long-term solution -- I view the "private CCing" idea as a temporary compromise for the next 12-18 months. Once we've gotten into the habit of regular releases, a more firm set of development proposals+guidelines, and GLISS done, we should look at having an official "steering committee" or "board of directors" or something like that. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
