From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261746AbVACSat (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:30:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261649AbVACSaK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:30:10 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:47378 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261746AbVACSZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:25:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:25:33 +0000 From: Russell King To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Domen Puncer , lkml Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list Message-ID: <20050103182532.A3442@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de>; from bunk@stusta.de on Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:54:38PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:54:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > If we must, I guess it's fine, but I expect *you* to provide the support > > to people to people who don't know where to go for it if *you* remove this. > > I'm sometimes doing patches that cover many files, and I want to Cc the > patches to the developers in question. > > If after sending 10 patches I get 5 "this is a subscribers-only list" > mails, I'm not going to subscribe to 5 lists, forward the patches to > them and unsubscribe again after this (and repeat this if there's some > discussion regarding one of these patches). > > In my experience, the best solution is a list policy that allows > subscribers to post and requires moderator approval for non-members. > This policy that is already used by several lists listed in MAINTAINERS > is IMHO a good compromise between avoiding spam and allowing > non-subscribers to post to the list. Well, that's precisely what happens with these lists - your post ends up in the moderator approval queue. They do generally find their way from there into the appropriate peoples mailboxes (iow, mine). -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core