[vote] Create private mailing list for OpenWrt committers

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 4/7/25 20:03, Stijn Tintel wrote:
> On 3/04/2025 11:49 p.m., Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>
>> I propose creating a new mailing list that only OpenWrt committers can 
>> read. All OpenWrt committers should be subscribed by default, and it 
>> should be possible to send messages to the list without requiring a 
>> subscription. Additionally, this list should replace the current 
>> abuse at openwrt.org and contact at openwrt.org addresses handling with 
>> freescout.openwrt.org. 
> 
> While I understand the rationale behind the idea, I remember very well 
> why I proposed and deployed Freescout. The contact@ address was 
> receiving irrelevant mail all the time, and it was impossible to track 
> if someone had already responded or not. Freescout helped there, and the 
> standard response templates were imo also useful to reduce workload to 
> handle responding to irrelevant mail. But I guess we never really gotten 
> used to checking Freescout regularly, seeing there are >1000 unassigned 
> mails. I'm just not sure if a mailing list is going to make the 
> situation better, or worse.

I think devel- is a open for all mailing list. The spam filter on our 
mailing is working much better than the version on Freescout or much 
less people spam our mailing list. If we still have the same spam volume 
as on Freescout it would be very bad.

If you use the replay-to-all others should know if someone answered and 
what was answered.

> I therefore vote neutral. I would also like to ask, if we create such 
> mailing list, to not make it mandatory for all committers to be subscribed.

It is also fine with me if we do not do the Freescout migration or do it 
later or differently.

Hauke