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Re: Overseers list should not be public
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> All-in-all I consider the public nature of the list to have only
> negative consequences.
I think it's clearly positive for it to be public. It means we don't need
to have a process for defining who from a project gets to be on overseers.
It means we can readily refer back to past discussions in the archives.
It means that when there are system problems we can refer to overseers
discussions of those problems on the mailing lists for individual
projects, and people who might not otherwise want to be on overseers can
follow the discussions there while the problems are affecting them. It
means people can check the overseers archives to see if a problem they're
encountering has already been reported.
Note that the overseers archives are disabled from search engine indexing
via robots.txt.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com