Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the interests of transparancy, openness, keeping people from > emailing debian-devel instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] why not make the > published contact address for ftpmaster be a publically viewable > archive? It doesn't have to be a list that everyone can subscribe to > and give their individual nit-pick comments about everything that is > sent there, just make the email viewable. > > Some people email -devel because they think maybe their email to > ftpmaster@ was never received, if they can verify it has been by > themselves, this would be a good thing. My guess is that people dont > think that mailing ftpmaster@ helps because it feels like a blackhole. > If the darkness was illuminated then people could see that ftpmaster@ > does try really hard to respond to things, and that your message that > you sent there did arrive... > > Perhaps there is a concern about privacy for some reason, but I am > sure issues involving privacy can be handled with care outside of a > public archived list. > > Micah
We have a BTS for this sort of things. Everyone can file bugs and ftp-master can comment during the process and even close the report when the issue is resolved. That sounds almost perfect. Why not encourage the use of it for ftp-master problems? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]