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[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:08:32PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen at wolffelaar.nl> [2005-11-17 14:29]:
> 
> > Can you please, pretty please, *not* restrict mailinglists that are
> > listed as the maintainer for a certain package to subscribers? The
> > maintainer field is intended to give access to the maintainer(s) of a
> > package. It can and will be used for any random person that has some
> > reason to contact you.
> 
> I know that restricting access to mailing-list-used-as-maintainer sucks.
> However, we are getting a huge amount of spam from the mailing lists
> hosted at Alioth.  Unless better spam filtering is implemented at the
> Alioth server, I am not going to open the access.  Sorry.

I see, ok. I still disagree, but it's your decision, I'd better focus on
pushing for better anti-spam for alioth then :).

> That said, I am the manager of the pkg-jed-* mailing lists.  I usually
> react very quickly to authorization requests and I add systematically
> non-spam senders to the list of authorized submitters (I have just added
> your address, by the way).

Ok, thanks... But of course, next time it'll be someone else. lists.d.o
has a whitelist for site-wide adding such exceptions, maybe alioth
should have such feature too, I guess... Or simply share the same
whitelist.

> > Also, can you please put the list of real flesh & blood maintainers in
> > the "Uploaders:" field, so that that package is not seemingly
> > maintained by an abstract list? Packages should have a real maintainer
> > listed.
> 
> My bad.  I already changed all the packages in our SVN repository by
> adding the Uploaders field to debian/control.  The next uploads will be
> okay.

Thanks a lot!

If you have any questions, please just ask,
--Jeroen

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