Bug#564536: GRUB maintainer address bounces
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > The main reason is that you avoid bothering people whose mails are
> > obviously not spam with needing to subscribe to a mailing list simply
> > to communicate with the maintainer.
>
> Why would they need a mailing list for that?
Many packages use mailing lists as their Maintainer. Currently, in
order to send mail to pkg-grub-devel (and probably some other
maintainers) your mail has to either match one of the alioth whitelist
rules [AFAIK, currently restricted to Debian-related daemon messages],
or be subscribed to the mailing list.
An alternative would be to make sure that package@packages.debian.org
always went through, I suppose, even if the mailing list was
moderated.
Regardless, we probably should have this discussion out in -policy or
-project for starters, and try to reach consensus there with a wider
audience. I'm going to try to start it and feed it there.
Don Armstrong
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