Re: Volunteer to take over mailing list moderation?

[Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw dot cz>]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:53:25AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 5/27/2011 5:43 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >[Petter Reinholdtsen 2011-05-09]
> >>I have ran out of time available for moderating the
> >>libc-locales@sourceware.org mailing list.  Any volunteer to take over?
> >
> >No-one have volunteered so far.  If no-one step forward before
> >2011-06-04, I will most likely start the process to have this list
> >shut down, as I am unable to find the required time to moderate it,
> >and all messages need to be manually accepted into the list.
> >
> >Happy hacking,
> 
> Why not ask overseers to remove the moderation requirement and
> accept any emails? It's still useful IMO to have somewhere for
> locale related conversations to happen. Most people can tolerate
> some spam.

I'm not actually sure if it is good idea to have some spawn-off
very low traffic lists. It seems to me that it rather contributes to
more fragmentation in the already very stagnant community. Another way
to look at it is that between last March and now, some 20 mails (except
localedata bug mails) arrived, but no *conversation* has happenned on
the list at all.

I think this is no good. Instead of redirecting people interested in
locales to a list that is used for reporting problems, but not for
solving them, it would be better to have this kind of discussion on
libc-help and libc-alpha, where it may become apparent even to people
not primarily interested in locales that there are problems in this
area and they need some attention. After all, the traffic really is
rather low.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.