[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.