Re: Relaxing mailing list requirement

On 2016/08/19 15:30, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> As a community, we've increasingly shifted away from gathering
> spec-related feedback via mailing lists. Unfortunately, PubRules still
> requires us to include a link to a mailing list in the boilerplate of
> a spec.
>
> I'm wondering if we could relax the mailing list requirement? Instead,
> make it optional to gather feedback either through a mailing list or
> an issue tracker (e.g., Github issues).

There are people (not me) who object to the use of sites such as github 
because it forces them to use non-free JavaScript.

Also, there are people (including me) who find github highly suboptimal 
for issue tracking, because e.g. mail notifications contain virtually no 
context.

Regards,   Martin.