posting policy to pkg-grub-devel

[Jonas Meurer]

On 10/09/2008 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2008, 17:50 +0200 schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> > On 10/09/2008 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > 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.
> > jonas
> 
> Well for me if you want to make a Bugreport you send it to Debian BTS
> instead of directly to the Maintainer.
> And Debian BTS bugreports come through the list.

Still users might want to contact the maintainers directly. What do you
think the Maintainer field in debian/control is for? In my opinion it
should provide anybody a contact address to the package maintainers. And
that contact address should be functional.

I don't know whether that's the right place to discuss such issues. But
I do remember discussions in the past where consensus was reached, and
that consensus was that email addresses in the Maintainer field should
not have a members-only posting policy in case that they're lists.
Please search debian-devel and debian-private archives yourself if you
need the exact thread. I'm too busy right now.

greetings,
 jonas