[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] RFC: Mailing List as Package Maintainer

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> We have previously discussed the idea of using a mailing list as the 
> official package maintainer, but never decided one way or the other. I 
> am personally in favor of this, Sven has suggested it before, and 
> Henrique has said he has nothing against this, but doesn't feel alioth 
> was reliable enough to host this.

Since subscribing the alioth list through the PTS to all email, I've came to
realize that there are two very very annoying issues with this:

1. the list must accept blind forwards (which currently is annoying me and
Sven as all heck, since we have to approve a lot of posts), and denying
blind forwards stops a lot of spam, so I wary of letting it go.

2. if the list breaks, NOBODY will get maintainer email. That means we still
need to be subscribed through the PTS, which in the end doesn't make things
any better than what we have right now.

(1) is workable in mailman, I don't know about other places (and the first
to suggest we use Yahoo groups gets kicked in the head :-) ).

> Henrique: What would be a reliable enough place to host such a list for you?

lists.debian.org.  At least when THAT breaks, we don't have to worry much as
pretty much everything else stops as well.

Really, we could also do simple mail forwarding to those who want it PLUS
the alioth mailinglist.  That I have nothing against, as it is not prone to
breakage.

That said, as long as at least me and Sven subscribe ourselves through the
PTS, using the alioth ML would be acceptable.

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  Henrique Holschuh