I agree with Gerhard on this. The mailing list is just a conduit for issues.
Another solution is to have another mailing list for issues
(drupal-issues), and leave drupal-devel to be development discussions
and anything for and by developers.
Good one Gerhard.
In the (distant) past the Drupal devel mailinglist was often used for
discussions about the (technical) future of the project or some of its
modules. Such discussions are now rare events. Today it is mostly a dump
for gated messages from project module.
I propose to stop this gating. All people who want the messages mailed can
get them by subscribing to the Drupal project at