On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Arno Töll wrote: >> upon rough consensus and after discussing with formorer [1] I'd like >> to to request a new list dedicated to sponsorship requests. The list >> would be used to manage sponsorship-requests bug traffic as a >> pseudo-package owner [2]. > > I'd personally prefer that all of the sponsorship-requests bug traffic > still go to this list. The primary reasons are: > > 1) People who sponsor are already subscribed to -mentors
This drives people who sponsor off the list -- we therefore loose people, not gain any. > 2) Problems with RFS require mentoring and are discussed on -mentors I'd be happy to subscribe to the new list and help there, as others are, I'm sure. > 3) Random sponsorship requests that don't get into the BTS go to -mentors I'm all for keeping new bug messages going to mentors, but not every control message. > 4) Those who don't want to receive BTS mail can trivially filter it out Those who want it can subscribe to a new list :) > 4a) I don't actually know who would want to be subscribed to -mentors > but not to sponsorship-requests I know of a few, and I've been tempted a few times. > > That said, if the consensus is that -mentors subscribers but non > sponsorship-requests subscribers is large enough to warrant having > everyone who wants to receive both subscribe to a new list, I'm ok > with doing the work to change the maintainer address. [But I don't > want to change it back after I've changed it... so please decide once > and for all.] > > I'll just try this selectricity poll for now so we don't get billions > of votes here: > > http://selectricity.org/quickvote/debianrfslist > > > Don Armstrong > > -- > My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders > of the modern world. > > http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120612205812.gc32...@rzlab.ucr.edu > -Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
