On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:25:40AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Robert: before we get to far along here, could you tell us about the
configuration of pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org?
It's a subscriber-only mailing list with (system-wide) exception for Debian
role accounts (BTS, PTS, DAK...).
2) Is there moderation in place for those who are not allowed to post?
No. I don't object to it, but nobody volunteered. I don't have time to
volunteer myself.
3) Would moderation of non-suscribers (or just a rejection of
non-negative SA scoring mails) be feasible?
Moderation would be feasible if someone volunteers to do it.
Rejection would be feasible if this is appropiately tuned to garantee a
neglectable amount of false negatives. Even then, I don't see the advantage
in comparison with a subscriber-only policy.
Note that before this policy was adopted, this list was an horrible, unusable
mess. I think more than 90% of its content was spam.
In upstream GRUB we've adopted this policy as well, for many years now, and
it's been completely uncontroversial.