Mailing List Use

[JasonKeirstead]

Hello all;

As some may know (and others not...) this WG has an official mailing list that can be used. The management page for it is at https://lists.openssf.org/g/openssf-wg-vul-disclosures and you can easily subscribe / unsubscribe from there. You can also do so by sending emails...

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I would like to propose that mainline discussions and meeting agendas be moved to the mailing list, and out of Github. The reason I propose this are multiple:

• The primary reason: Github does not allow one to subscribe to only discussion notifications (or only new issues) - you have to "watch" the entire repo if you want to be notified for new discussions emerging. This results in you being emailed for every single PR and merge on the project, which generates a lot of needless spam that I suspect most people are not interested in receiving.

• As a secondary but also important reason, message threading in emails "just works" on a mailing list. It does not work properly when discussions are had on Github issues and then relayed via email, as the email client (at least my email client...) has no idea there is a thread.

Both of these issues make it harder to create free-flowing conversations in this WG, as I believe would more effectively happen on a mailing list.

Thoughts?

[MarcinHoppe]

I would be in favour of that and I will post the next meeting agenda to the mailing list as well as in a GitHub issue.

I agree the list is not used at all right now but it is a great communication medium!