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 topic-oriented policy would just work. I'm so confident because this is how the Gentoo dev mailing list works and it works well. To draw a caricature, trolling does not happen because devs ask others to talk with code. And I can't believe the Arch Linux community has more flamers than Gentoo's community. I tend to think it's quiet the opposite as the Gentoo community is wider.
We simply cannot allow that to spread to arch-dev-public, even if we all agree it is too bad that some people with considerate opinions are not allowed to post there just because they aren't devs.
Things can change! ,-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht