I will surely state the obvious, but the output of this discussion is that ther4e is a need for everybody, what ever our relationship to org-mode or emacs, needs a way to filter the various conversation about org-mode on the various communication channel used by the project.
This mainly imply this ML and if there is a way to pre-format messages we want to send to the ML it will make filtering easier.
In fact, a good approach would be the same as for todo state.
Example of message states:
[QUESTION] -> [ANSWER]
[BUG] -> ( [CONFIRMED] | [WONTFIX] | [SOLVED] )
[CONFIRMED] -> ( [SOLVED] | [PLANNED] )
[FEATURE] -> ( [WONTDO] | [PLANNED] | [IMPLEMENTED] )
[PLANNED] -> ( [IMPLEMENTED] | [SOLVED] )
Of Course, nothing should prevent moving a message from [BUG] to [QUESTION] for example.
Hope this will help go on with a solution and an actual implementation, I suppose mainly documentation on the org website and configuration for all of us.
Regards,
Roland.