On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 18:06 -0400, Dennis Clarke via openssl-users wrote: > On 3/19/23 17:20, Tim Hudson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 4:10 PM Dr. Matthias St. Pierre via > > openssl-users < > > openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Reading through the replies it seems obvious that the response is > > > an > > > unanimous "No, please don't do it!!" > > > > > > > It is to be entirely expected that those who are on a mailing list > > and feel > > impacted if it closes are the ones that would respond - that was > > pretty > > much the question - asking for those who would feel impacted. > > Right now it is sitting at about 20-30 people who have responded. > > That is a > > small set of feedback (given the size of the list) and the details > > in the > > feedback need to be looked at and responded to. > > This entire thread of discussion feels like some marketing people sat > down and made the unilateral decision to just close the maillist for > ordinary users such as myself. No amount of discussion will mean > anything as there is no vote and no decison process that involves the > actual people affected. This is not a "community" process. It is > just a > business move. No, the decision is not made. And the feedback from this mailing list thread is definitely something that will affect my position when/if there is a decision to be made. I assume other people in the working group that proposed to ask the question to gather responses to help the decision process will also consider the feedback given so far. -- Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL
