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Re: DLA documented



Hi,

 

(adding listmasters@ to cc: again...)

 

On Freitag, 18. Juli 2014, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

> > > I don't think we should impose restrictions on the format of the mails.

> > I think we absolutly should. We want consistend announcements, don't we?

> Not at the price of scaring away occasional LTS contributors, no.

 

well, we'll pay the price of looking incompent in exchange (as mails with "broken subjects" or context will happen. I hate(d) to see those on the DSA list (as it makes Debian security look bad, IMO) and I wont like to see these mistakes with DLAs.

 

Also I'm not conviced a bouncing mail will scare away contributors for real.

> Since the moderation scripts doesn't send error bounces, every misformatted

> mail ends up in a black hole.

 

This doesnt sound like an unfixable problem. (?)

 

 

All this said, I won't insist now, getting work done is definitly more important than endless arguing.

 

 

cheers,

Holger

 

 

 

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