Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:17:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> It's important in order to make the project feel more welcoming and open. > I bet that's truer than you think it is. It's possible for it to be both true and ironic at the same time. :) Also, part of what m

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:17:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's important in order to make the project feel more welcoming and open. I bet that's truer than you think it is.

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:31:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm extremely sympathetic to the problem you're trying to solve, but I >> think it's a fairly fundamental UI issue in how email works, and I'm >> dubious that creating another list will help much. > Right, wha

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 18, 2016 08:58:53 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > I do think the example of Ubuntu splitting ubuntu-devel into ubuntu-devel > > and ubuntu-devel-discuss may be a relevant data point. As an active > > participant in Ubuntu development both before and after the

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:31:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm extremely sympathetic to the problem you're trying to solve, but I > think it's a fairly fundamental UI issue in how email works, and I'm > dubious that creating another list will help much. Right, what we need is a way of punishi

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I think that such a list would provide an opportunity for discussions > to move out of -private, which is of course an even bigger barrier to > participation. I believe threads stay in -private long past the point of requiring privacy, not because people are particularly en

Re: public stats about posts in -private

2016-07-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/07/16 21:22, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On 2016-07-18 18:21, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> There are some things on -private that could be summarized with >> statistics publicly, e.g. the reasons people give when they retire from >> the project (X% cited reason A, Y% cited reason B, ...) >> >> I

Re: public stats about posts in -private

2016-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2016-07-18 18:21, Daniel Pocock wrote: There are some things on -private that could be summarized with statistics publicly, e.g. the reasons people give when they retire from the project (X% cited reason A, Y% cited reason B, ...) Is there any consensus on whether deriving anonymous statistic

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Ole Streicher
Scott Kitterman writes: > I do think the example of Ubuntu splitting ubuntu-devel into ubuntu-devel and > ubuntu-devel-discuss may be a relevant data point. As an active participant > in Ubuntu development both before and after the split I paid attention to it > (and remained subscribed to ubu

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 18, 2016 07:53:23 PM Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:46:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > In any case, with the renewed opposition here I'm certainly not going > > to push this issue unless there are others who agree with me and > > disagree with the views of

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:46:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > In any case, with the renewed opposition here I'm certainly not going > to push this issue unless there are others who agree with me and > disagree with the views of others posted so far. I agree what you proposed would be an interesti

public stats about posts in -private

2016-07-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
There are some things on -private that could be summarized with statistics publicly, e.g. the reasons people give when they retire from the project (X% cited reason A, Y% cited reason B, ...) Is there any consensus on whether deriving anonymous statistics from debian-private is acceptable? Rega

Automatic time-based Subject-line declassification for -private

2016-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I was at a small party drinking perhaps too much port and I proposed in jest a scheme which now, even though I'm sober, seems like it might actually be a good idea: Suppose we instituted a rule that every posting to debian-private had to have, in its Subject line, exactly one subject like tag like

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to"): > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:47:19PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > We also need to understand why people use -private when perhaps they > > ought not. One reason is that -private has a better signal to noise > >

A different donation.

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Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
Remember implies it's not happening still (not that anyone on this thread is guilty of this) Paul On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> I'm sorry to be so negative, but I'm afraid I have to say that I >> obje

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:35:06AM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > Remember implies it's not happening still while this is true, poisoning also not neccessarily goes away by itself. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm sorry to be so negative, but I'm afraid I have to say that I > object to the suggestion of creating a members-only mailing list. It > creates another barrier to participation in Debian at a time when we > should be tearing them d

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:47:19PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > We also need to understand why people use -private when perhaps they > ought not. One reason is that -private has a better signal to noise > ratio than -devel or -project, and therefore people pay more attention > to it. I'm sorry to

Re: Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ian Jackson , 2016-07-18, 13:47: One reason is that -private has a better signal to noise ratio than -devel or -project, and therefore people pay more attention to it. The only @lists.d.o mailing lists I know that have worse signal-to-noise ratio than -private are -security and -user. If y

Publicly-readable list for only DDs and DMs to post to

2016-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
tl;dr: pls can we create debian-members@l.d.o with posting acceptance rules copied from debian-devel-announce[1] and subscriber list maintained in sync with debian-private. (Reply-to set to -project.) We've been having a good conversation on -vote about the declassification of -private. W