The argument comes down to how much noise you're willing to endure inWhy don't we see how this new system all works out? The original approach with fedora-devel-list has been around for awhile, and there have been problems with S/N.
order to leave the door open for valuable posts from people who are too
new to have made acknowledged contributions. A moderated list might be a
better compromise.
So let's give this new system some time and see what the risk/reward is to this approach. After all, even though Fedora as an OS might have a long lineage, Fedora as a community is still really new. This makes everything both easy and hard because there's a lot of users to begin with, and everyone wants almost-the-same-thing-but-not-quite. So, figuring out how to build a community on the fly that works for everyone is a hard problem. Having some data or experience with which to support a particular point of view will help.
If there are significant downsides to the new structure, or things become unworkable, I'm sure that the Fedora folks will be open to revisiting the issue.
Richard
PS I am not on fedora-maintainers.
