Re: Wiki editor request

On 06/09/2016 10:03 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun  9, 2016 at 09:52:13PM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> On 06/09/2016 09:49 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Why would we not just create a list of people who can grant access,
>>> rather than posting to a public list?
>>
>> because all the people how can grant access are already on this list and
>> they are tracking the list for other reasons anyway - if we just put up
>> a list of people and people start mailing those indidually would not
>> really scale imho - and I dont think it is worth creating
>> just-another-list either.
> 
> Well, what percentage of readers of www do not grant wiki permissions? 
> I would guess it is +90%, meaning 90% of www subscribers are reading
> emails in which they have no interest, and 90% of traffic on this list
> is now the request for wiki permissions --- so that makes 180%.  ;-)

not sure I believe in that math...

> 
> If you would like me to unsubscribe because this list is now mostly for
> the requesting of wiki permissions, I can do that.

well - sorry for that but please understand that granting permissions
that way is not fun for us either and it would be an additional burden
for use to track yet-another-list, but if that is what people think we
need to do...


Stefan