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 also agree that we don't want to end up with non constructive content in dev-public, and we don't want to waste time on justifying rejecting/banning things (it should stay high-quality and low volume as we expect all devs and all users of testing to read it thoroughly).
I don't know the best solution, just throwing out an idea.
I agree with you this would be a welcome alternative. Allowing outside moderated contributions can really reduce the gap between users and devs for maintenance and code oriented discussions while still protecting from poor content (which is a fair understandable fear). Also, it would help in the longer run to appreciate how things can go with a more open policy and let everybody evaluate the possibility of a full opened mailing list based on accepted/rejected mails ratio. I'd like to add that trying to change a mailing list policy is a easy reversible change in case things don't go to the expected way. So, this is a +1 from me. -- Nicolas Sebrecht