Re: The debian-cloud list as maintainer pushes BTS emails to our list: this is wrong

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 6/16/24 01:14, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 10:59:59PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Thomas wrote:
> > > A number of packages have our list as Maintainer. This is wrong.
> > > Listmasters have constantly remain that Debian lists are *not* for this
> > > purpose.
> >
> > Um. When? This is quite a common pattern for a number of teams,
> > e.g. d-i, debian-cd, debian-efi.
>
> I was wondering about that since f2fs-tools, btrfs-progs are maintained by:
>
>      Filesystems Group <filesystems-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> Granted, that's lists.alioth.debian.org, as opposed to
> lists.debian.org, but I'm curious why it's considered bad to have a
> list as a maintainer.  Is this stated in some policy document?
>
>       	  	       	       	      	 - Ted

I personally hate it, as it breaks filtering of lists vs bugs, but my 
personal taste is not the issue here.

Listmasters do not allow it, they think (IMO rightly) that it's not what 
the lists were designed for, and that also, the tracker is a way nicer 
for this job (it also contains a subscribe / unsubscribe facility).

If you're not sure, discuss with listmasters.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)