posting policy to pkg-grub-devel

[Jonas Meurer]

On 10/09/2008 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2008, 16:40 +0200 schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> > I just discovered that postings to pkg-grub-devel are allowed to
> > subscribers only. As far as I know this policy is highly discoraged for
> > any mailinglist that serves as maintainer contact address for debian
> > packages.
> > 
> Well I'm not the poerson who decided this, actually I just started to Co
> Maintain the grub packages and didn't even know that is subscriber only.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#collaborative-maint
> http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#head-0311697c2c680ff0e8da5e197ae8b313d75e700d
> 
> But these 2 pages tell me, that this isn't a problem, because the
> messages from Debian BTS and ftpmaster come through the list without any
> human interaction.

I'm not sure about moderated lists, but apparently pkg-grub-devel is not
even moderated. mails from unsubscribed addresses are simply rejected
and not being held for moderation. That's a big difference in my eyes.

greetings,
 jonas