Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: drop moderated sheepdog mailing list from MAINTAINERS file

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2018 10:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The sheepdog mailing list is setup to stop and queue messages from
> non-subscribers, pending moderator approval. Unfortunately it seems
> that the moderation queue is not actively dealt with. Even when messages
> are approved, the sender is never added to the whitelist, so every
> future mail the same sender continues to get stopped for moderation.
>
> MAINTAINERS entries should be responsive and not uneccessarily block
> mails from QEMU contributors, so drop the sheepdog mailing list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Perhaps the sheepdog list would like to know what we are doing, along 
with a heads up that their list policy is unfriendly.  But I can't be 
the one to tell them - if I were to add the sheepdog list in cc, I'd get 
moderated.

It's annoyed me enough times that I agree with the change.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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