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["Nick Ali" <nali@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Like mentioned previously, requiring someone to subscribe to a list to
submit a story is not good.  I can't think of a good solution for
that.

nick

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'd like to reopen the discussion of the Fridge and News Mailing lists
>  now that LP mailing lists are out of beta.
>
>  To rehash:
>
>  1) We want one list where folks can send news items to that services
>  the Fridge, UWN, and other areas (e.g. Full Circle).
>   * There's a LP team for this https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-news
>  which can have it's own mailing list however only team members can
>  post.
>   * We had wanted a list where anyone can submit articles.
>
>  2) I want to shutdown fridge-devel (which is private and I don't
>  recognize several of the subscribers) for fridge editor discussions
>  and use the LP list (ubuntu-fridge) for all editor discussions.
>  ubuntu-fridge discussions can be viewed by the public however posting
>  is restricted to team members..  This list is driven by our LP team:
>  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-fridge  which will (in 2-3 months) also
>  drive ACL access on the fridge itself.  So, I'd like to center
>  everything around it. It makes administration of our team much easier.
>
>
>  I am blocked on executing #2 above because it's dependent upon finding
>  a solution for #1.  A proposal for #1 was submitted as
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuNews
>  I'd like you all to review the proposal. For the purposes of this
>  email, I don't have an opinion on the proposal.  Another possible
>  solution is to make a mailing list for ubuntu-news, allow anyone to
>  subscribe to the team, and then all subscribers could post. The down
>  side is someone posting has to be subscribed (which will be addressed,
>  perhaps this fall, with something call "standing" which would allow
>  certain types of active users to post to lists run by teams of which
>  they themselves are not a member of). The upside is that it will
>  drastically reduce spam.
>
>  Comments please.  I am quite anxious to implement #2.
>
>  Joey
>
>
>  On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Matthew East <mdke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >  > Hi,
>  >  >
>  >  > >  On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Joey Stanford <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >  > >  > 3) We enable mailing lists on ubuntu-news and we move the fridge
>  >  > >  > editor discussions over to ubuntu-news
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  That works for me in principle - but then non-members won't be able to
>  >  > >  write to us. We need a single list which is open to non-members. Will
>  >  > >  that feature be available on launchpad?
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > right, ubuntu-news would need to be an open team. To post, folks would
>  >  > need to join the team and subscribe to the list.  At least until the
>  >  > concept of standing is implemented (perhaps later this year) which
>  >  > would allow contributers meeting certain requirements to post to lists
>  >  > they are not subscribed to.
>  >  >
>  >  > If your concern is that folks still have to subscribe to post the we
>  >  > should create and host the list outside of Launchpad.
>  >
>  >  I don't feel strongly about it but I tend to think that it's a little
>  >  bit too much of a barrier for the time being - maybe we can review it
>  >  when the LP implementation has matured slightly and has that sort of
>  >  capability.
>  >
>  >  I think the LP implementation is seriously pretty cool but it may be
>  >  that for this purpose we want to use a regular Ubuntu list. Lets see
>  >  what others think.
>  >
>  >
>  >
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>  >  Matthew East
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