Re: Bug#677277: lists.debian.org: new list: sponsorship-requests@lists.debian.org
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Arno Töll wrote:
>> upon rough consensus and after discussing with formorer [1] I'd like
>> to to request a new list dedicated to sponsorship requests. The list
>> would be used to manage sponsorship-requests bug traffic as a
>> pseudo-package owner [2].
>
> I'd personally prefer that all of the sponsorship-requests bug traffic
> still go to this list. The primary reasons are:
>
> 1) People who sponsor are already subscribed to -mentors
This drives people who sponsor off the list -- we therefore loose
people, not gain any.
> 2) Problems with RFS require mentoring and are discussed on -mentors
I'd be happy to subscribe to the new list and help there, as others
are, I'm sure.
> 3) Random sponsorship requests that don't get into the BTS go to -mentors
I'm all for keeping new bug messages going to mentors, but not every
control message.
> 4) Those who don't want to receive BTS mail can trivially filter it out
Those who want it can subscribe to a new list :)
> 4a) I don't actually know who would want to be subscribed to -mentors
> but not to sponsorship-requests
I know of a few, and I've been tempted a few times.
>
> That said, if the consensus is that -mentors subscribers but non
> sponsorship-requests subscribers is large enough to warrant having
> everyone who wants to receive both subscribe to a new list, I'm ok
> with doing the work to change the maintainer address. [But I don't
> want to change it back after I've changed it... so please decide once
> and for all.]
>
> I'll just try this selectricity poll for now so we don't get billions
> of votes here:
>
> http://selectricity.org/quickvote/debianrfslist
>
>
> Don Armstrong
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