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

[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 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