[csw-maintainers] ITP: opencsw-policy

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 31 de Dezembro de 2010 11:20, Peter FELECAN
<pfelecan at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>>>> Changes to the policy will be posted to the maintainers (or the devel)
>>>> list for discussion.  The initial submissions will be ports of
>>>> existing documentation on the wiki and in Wordpress.  Any subsequent
>>>> changes will be also posted to the mailing list before submission.
>>>
>>> We need a policy mailing list which should be private.
>>
>> What would be the purpose of that mailing list and why should it be
>> private?  The source updates will be public.
>
> Privacy: policies discussions can be tempestuous, especially in the
>         initial phase; no need to wash our laundry in public...

If discussions on private mailing lists are tempestuous, it might be
the other way around: people are less likely to watch their virtual
mouth when talking in private.  Another issue: having public archives
of policy discussions might be important for newcomers, who might want
to read discussions behind policy decisions.  Otherwise you might see
the same questions raised over and over again, or you would have to
document all of them.

> Isolation: polices discussion are not drowned in the general noise which
>           make them clearer; using many lists can be confusing
>           reference wise.

The main reason to have a separate mailing list would be the amount of
traffic; I don't feel that the maintainers@ mailing list has too much
traffic right now.  We already have discussions about matters of
policy.  (Although some of them also start on pkgsubmissions@ too.)

I'd say that creating the new mailing list should happen when we
notice concrete problems with existing discussions and agree that a
private list would solve them.