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[Jordan Mantha]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
> > We've been holding off approving new lists until we can confirm that
> >  all current known issues are resolved.  I'm hopeful that we can start
> >  approving new lists in the next day or two.
> >
> > -Barry
> >
> >
> Maybe this is a silly question (or series of them), but...
>
> Weren't the launchpad lists released to the general public with the 1.2.3
> release?
>
> If so, why aren't you sure that the issues are resolved?  If not, then why
> did it get released with known (presumably major, if you're not activating
> new ones) issues?
>

The "issues", as I understand it, are just in the way the CC would like
lists to work for Ubuntu, not that the Launchpad team released broken
software.


>
> What are the issues?
>

I think the main one is that you must be a member of the team to post to a
team mailing list. In Ubuntu we will often want to allow anybody to
subscribe to the mailing list.


> Apologies if i'm totally off base here - this is just what i'm getting
> from reading this ML.
>

This is a matter of "doesn't have all the features we want so we are not
recommending a mass transition", not "OMG Launchpad killed my ML!!!"

-Jordan
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