From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CAD6E1A for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B162B76C for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:18:01 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Message-ID: <20180917141801.GA8759@infradead.org> References: <8412864.7ztUKcXNNC@avalon> <20180910211128.GH16557@thunk.org> <1939259.kNhvOyGpTJ@avalon> <20180917084335.007012ec@coco.lan> <20180917100413.22eac00d@coco.lan> <20180917132908.GA15424@infradead.org> <20180917105805.0ccf0064@coco.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180917105805.0ccf0064@coco.lan> Cc: Christoph Hellwig , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:58:05AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > specifically). The only problem is that people tend to omit context, > > > because they assume that you see the code or previous messages that they > > > see in the web interface, which you do not. > > > > The major problem with github is that as far as I can tell there is no > > way to interact with it without creating an account. > > Well, the same happens with moderated mailing lists. There are a > lot of them: > $ git grep moderated MAINTAINERS|wc -l > 221 Note that moderated doesn't mean that it always rejects non-subscribers. For example I post to linux-arm-kernel frequently, and my mails always seem to make it through with a delay. Other lists seems to reject non-subcribers, but the personal email addresses of the maintainers still allow to submit patches without any signup.