I think my mistake was opening this topic for discussion. It seems to have made a lot of people angry.

The proper thing to do would be to begin doing as it says in the wiki.

So I think the Council will begin using this forum for organizational purposes, announcements involving discussion and general community discussion and we'll post a link to the discussion on the maemo-community list.

Others can continue to use the maemo-community mailing list as they wish for the time being until the technical difficulties of merging the two channels are worked out.