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[Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think we could greatly improve the quality of discussion on this
> mailing list by doing something like it was done on the ubuntu-devel
> mailing list: allow a few delegated team(s) to post messages, and
> everyone else will be moderated.
>
> We could put more thought into this, but IMHO allowing these teams the
> ability to post unmoderated should be good:
> ubuntumembers
> ubuntu-dev
> locoteams
> unity-dev
> The design teams
> People who've been actively involved in constructive discussion in the ML.
>
> That's just a list which I came up in under 5 minutes, and it isn't a
> new idea; ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and many others follow a
> similar system already.
>
> Opinions welcome.
>
> Bilal Akhtar.
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > We've done rather well to attract a lot of comments and discussion on
> > the unity-design list, which is great. And there are lots of interesting
> > ideas and suggestions and proposals and mockups, which is even better.
> >
> > There are, however, quite a lot of repetitive threads. For example,
> > today's "yet another dodge windows" thread. Into that category I'd put
> > the "why can't it be an option" thread and the "it's ridiculous that the
> > buttons are on the left" thread. For all that they represent perfectly
> > valid ideas, which are certainly shared by some users, they have been
> > discussed to death and are boring to re-hash again and again. They clog
> > an inbox that would otherwise be full of more interesting, new ideas. We
> > are over them, so to speak, but new participants may not know that.
> >
> > There's lots of value in having a public, unmoderated list for design
> > discussions. It's good to have a place where anybody can generate ideas.
> > And this list is fine for that. I'd like to propose an additional list,
> > unity-distilled, which would be public and unmoderated, but open by
> > invitation only. Participation there would be predicated on a shared
> > understanding of our values, goals and modus operandi. People would be
> > invited if they show an interest, insight into and agreement with the
> > answers to the above boring threads, and several more like them. I'm
> > sure we'll have vigorous debates on -distilled, but folk there would
> > have demonstrated an ability to have the debate, settle the question and
> > move on to more interesting matters rather than letting the same topics
> > come up repeatedly.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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