[Committers] Why this list?

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Even if not all messages concern them, there's no reason for
>>> red tape. As said, there are no secrets in any of this.
>> I'm willing to disband this list if others agree. Certainly
>> most discussions should and have taken place on the Foundation list.
>
> It depends a little on whether we want committer-specific  
> discussions. Like, if I want to ask "committers, what do you think  
> of this?".
> I don't yet know whether that will occur very often to warrant a  
> list. We could of course also have such discussions on a dev list,  
> but we have more dev list than one so it's easier to have it here.  
> We could also have the communication on the foundation list of  
> course, as Philipp suggests - if that is an open list that would be  
> all right, though it is theoretically distracting for people not  
> interested in committer specific discussions.
>
> Since I don't know how things shape up concerning communications I  
> don't  really have much of an opinion. I'm sure we'll manage on the  
> foundation list if this list were to go away, but the existence of  
> this list doesn't bother me either and could be convenient.

We still need to finalize the process for inviting new committer  
members,
I expect that we'll want to have such discussions among ourselves.

Jim

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