Re: Relaxing mailing list requirement

Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:59:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.specifications
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On August 20, 2016 at 4:43:00 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. ([email protected]) wrote:
> The email archive link is intentional and should be preserved. While
> I love using GitHub as our issue tracker, it's not appropriate to rely
> on GitHub the company as our history-maintainer.

Agree. I was not suggesting otherwise.

> Setting up a mailing
> list that receives all GH Issues mail (or just repurposing the groups
> main list for that purpose) is easy.

Yep, is what we do.

> For actual collab, tho, Specberus allows either a mailing list *or* a
> GH Issues link, as you note.

Yeah, I think I need to just update ReSpec's templates to allow
developers to say "we prefer feedback on GitHub... historical archive
of issues is captured in mailing list X".