people should be able to join mailing lists without being a member of the team
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
(copy&paste from a mail sent to Barry replaying to his call for testing/feedback regarding the beta availability of the new mailing lists)
What is the reason non-team-members can't join a mailing list? I may understand
that they can't post if they aren't members of the team, but why they can't join
at all? That doesn't make sense if the archives are publicly available.
My usercase is: I want to join terminator's (a gtk+ terminal) mailing list, but
I'm not a member of ~terminator, which is the development team (have commit
access to the main branches, are the bug contacts for the project...). I'm
pretty sure Chris Jones (Ng), who is the project leader, would be interested in
me and anyone being subscribed to the mailing list, and probably making
contributions (i.e. mailing to it), but I'm pretty sure he won't want to add
every random user to ~terminator for the above permissions he would be granting.
| Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote | #1 |
| Luke Faraone (lfaraone) wrote | #2 |
| Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote | #3 |
a) Everyone should be able to join a ML in read-only mode (since archives are
public)
b) The team admin should be able to decide the policy for non-team-members to
mail the ML:
- Only team members can mail
- Everybody can mail, but non-team-members posts will get moderated. (Probably
default)
- Everybody with his mail address registered in Launchpad can mail without
moderation.
- Everybody with his mail address registered in Launchpad can mail without
moderation, and those with an address not registered can mail but will get
moderated.
- Maybe some more sensible options.