[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Tom Gundersen wrote: > An option could be to enable moderation on dev-public, still defaulting to > rejecting everything, but allow through high-quality contributions from the > outside. > > I agree that we should create a venue for would-be contributors to engage > with us, but i a

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollute threads > with fear, uncertainty, doubt, and just sheer incompetence. I'm very confident that an open dev mailing list with

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Allan McRae wrote: > If all that crap went to arch-dev-public, I would have to unsubscribe > there too. What you're calling crap are all technical content that could gain with direct emulation with official maintainers. BTW, what a wonderfull attitude from you to non official peopl

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 27/09/12, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > The 27/09/12, Tobias Frilling wrote: > > > > The problem is not at the general mailing list but at the dev mailing > > list side. > > archlinux-dev is for contributors and as long somebody is just

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-27 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 27/09/12, Tobias Frilling wrote: > IMHO the cause of all these flaming is that arch-general is too, well, > general. The problem is not that arch-general is the wrong place for the latter threads. Users are correct to think such discussion should happen here. The problem is that maintainers