Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: make linux-mediatek list remarks consistent

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 16:01 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > > I am not subscribed to linux-mediatek. When I sent an email to the list,
> > > it showed up really seconds later in the lore.kernel.org of the
> > > linux-mediatek public-inbox repository. So, either it was delivered
> > > quickly as it is not moderated or my check with lore.kernel.org is wrong,
> > > e.g., mails show up in the lore.kernel.org archive, even they were not
> > > yet permitted on the actual list.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm the moderator and I get requests to moderate emails. I suppose I added you
> > to the accepted list because of earlier emails you send.
> > 
> 
> Okay, I see. I did send some clean-up patch in the past, but I completely 
> forgot that, but my mailbox did not forget. So, now it is clear to me why 
> that mail showed up so quickly.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.

AFAICT the linux-mediatek list isn't configured to automatically
moderate messages from non-subscribers. Its generic_nonmember_action
setting is 'Accept'. That is the default setting for lists on
infradead.org and I strongly encourage list maintainers to leave it
that way.

Lukas, I don't see your address in the allowlist either.

There are other reasons why some messages get might trapped for
moderation — the message size, number of recipients, spam score, etc.

The mere fact that *some* messages are moderated does not mean that the
list is "moderated for non-subscribers" in the sense that the
MAINTAINERS file lists.

> Bjorn, with that confirmation and Reviewed-by from Matthias, could you 
> please pick this patch?

I think we should be fixing the ones that *do* say it's moderated for
non-subscribers, not the one that correctly didn't :)

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