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Per the message below, I propose to close this bug because I think this is already addressed reasonably well. (There's probably some room to offer
advice to maintainers on how to run the mailing list, but that feels more
like devref material than Policy material.)
Chris, any objections? Am I missing some aspect of your original bug
report?
Russ Allbery <
rra@debian.org> writes:
My personal feeling is that the current vagueness is a feature rather
than a bug. I think a moderated mailing list is fine *if* the
moderation queue is very promptly processed, but not okay if the
moderation queue is just a place for messages to go to die.
I feel like Policy already strikes a fairly good balance here:
The maintainer must be specified in the Maintainer control field
with their correct name and a working email address. The email
address given in the Maintainer control field must accept mail from
those role accounts in Debian used to send automated mails regarding
the package. This includes non-spam mail from the bug-tracking
system, all mail from the Debian archive maintenance software, and
other role accounts or automated processes that are commonly agreed
on by the project.
and also note the footnote, which directly addresses moderated mailing
lists:
A sample implementation of such a whitelist written for the Mailman
mailing list management software is used for mailing lists hosted by
alioth.debian.org.
This language dates from an earlier bug about moderated mailing lists
from ftp-master, and was the result of that bug discussion.
--
Russ Allbery (
rra@debian.org) <
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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