OT: (?) Calling on Fedora/RedHat ML managers to clean up Fedora-list.

[Pierre-Yves]

max wrote:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
>> * Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> [20080728 08:39]:
>>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Anders Karlsson 
>>> <anders at trudheim.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> The threads that Gilboa mentions is the sole reason I implemented
>>>> Sieve in my mailserver at home. fedora-devel and fedora-list became
>>>> interesting and useful about as soon as those threads were filtered
>>>> out.
>>>>
>>>> Read in to it what you want.
>>> You miss my point.   Are these discussions valuable or not. If they
>>> are not... then we shouldn't make a place for them.... period.  I
>>> don't see anyone who actually standing up and saying these things are
>>> valued and thus worth preparing a special place for in our resource
>>> pool.  If we are only considering making more channels so some of us
>>> can ignore others among us because they are talking about things we
>>> don't care about... I'm not prepared to support that.
>>
>> I see what you mean.
>>
>> Are the discussions in question valuable? No, they are about as useful
>> as a chocolate teapot.
>>
> Speak for yourself.
> 
>>> I'll consider supporting additional dedicated communications channel
>>> for things when the people who find value in the discussion in
>>> question ask for a dedicated list. They must be able to make the case
>>> that such dedicated communication will actually be useful in helping a
>>> team of people work together towards some identified task or goal
>>> which helps moves the project forward.
>>
>> Cool, I'll carry on with the kill-lists then. If any of the
>> participants would ever consider contributing anything remotely
>> valuable in future, I'll remain in blissful ignorance. Despite me
>> participating in one or two of the threads, I consider them to be
>> ultimately harmful to the Fedora Project, and to Red Hat, a point I
>> have stated.
>>
> How can a discussion of open source and the GPL be harmful to Fedora or 
> Red Hat?
> In what bizarro universe does that even begin to make sense.
>  People that don't find the conversation useful should ignore it, that 
> is after all what mail filters were created to do.

Sure let's create new filter for each thread that I can not read because
- I do not have the time to follow
- I do not have the knowledge to understand

hm... I gonna like it !

Pierre