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[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> For the sake of the non-GNOME people on the list, the exact same
> brouhaha happened with GNOME. What eventually happened after the uproar
> died down was, as Adam suggests here, a division of the list into
> gnome-hackers and gnome-private. gnome-hackers continued on as a "core
> development" list[1], and gnome-private faded into the background,
> playing the role of ultimate puppet master, waiting for the day to
> announce to the world that yes, it does INDEED have a doomsday device,
> and is not afraid to use it.
> 
> Okay, I made that last bit up. But the point remains that such a
> division is entirely workable, and Miguel has already been through a
> similar one, and I'm sure he will handle the current situation just as
> reasonably.

In fact, when I made mono-hackers and there was a debate a year ago, I
promised to create a new mailing list (maybe mono-devel-list) which I
failed to do due to work overload.

The right solution is to create mono-devel-list, I will ask for the list
to be created, but I am going to Mexico tomorrow morning, and wont have
time to set it up until Thursday.

Juli has given a good description of why a private mailing list is
required for an inner group.

Best wishes,
Miguel.