Re: Goodbye, Fedora (Limiting -devel to maintainers/contributers/etc?)

[Randy Wyatt]

>  Gilboa Davara wrote:
>  >
>  > Unless I'm mistaken, the original idea was that -devel members has to be
>  > sponsored before given rw rights.
>  > Being a fedora developer and/or an active -extras maintainer will just
>  > speed things up.
>
>  No.  fedora-devel-list was originally meant to be developer discussion
>  only.  End-user support does not belong here at all.  Unfortunately,
>  this list has been increasingly failing us for a few reasons:
>
>  - "developer discussion" is a gray area
>  - policing is a manual process of constant vigilance.  Effort today
>  leaves no lasting effects in a few days.
>
>  What if more list members helped in the policing, making it an actively
>  hostile place for end-users to post support questions?  I dunno... 


Making any list actively hostile to end-users is a quick way to lose
end-users. This is one of the reasons I no longer use openSuSE.