I think the simple, non-technical solution is for discussion leaders on maemo-community to realize that any consensus reached on the mailing list is not a community consensus, merely a starting point to propose to the wider community.

This kind of core-group consensus can be very useful to focus the discussion that must occur on Talk on issues that affect the wider community.

What we need is a commitment from the discussion leaders to bring the topics here before making big decisions. In practice, this means the council, Nokia contacts (Quim et al) and maemo.org team (dneary et al).