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

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
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>>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.
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>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:
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>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.
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>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.
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>(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 :-) ).
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>>Henrique: What would be a reliable enough place to host such a list for you?
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>lists.debian.org.  At least when THAT breaks, we don't have to worry much as
>pretty much everything else stops as well.
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Is this option even available? I was under the impression it was just 
for "big" lists, and all projects were on alioth.

>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.
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>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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That would work as well.
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