On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 18:56 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 18:50 Tomas Mraz <tomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I wonder if some of the concerns were alleviated if we started > > using > > the GitHub Discussions feature for the user-type questions and > > general > > discussions of OpenSSL. You can subscribe and watch only > > Discussions on > > a GH project - i.e., have notifications of new Discussion topics > > and > > replies to them delivered to your e-mail. > > > > You would not need to subscribe to all the traffic (i.e. the issues > > related to development of OpenSSL would be still kept in Issues and > > Pull requests). You can also reply to a thread by just replying to > > the > > notification e-mail. So there is actually no need to use a Web > > browser > > to read/reply on those discussions. > > > > > > You get no history, no context. Must access the web interface to > understand what you missed. Have you tried to use this as > substitution? I use the notifications for Issues and Pull requests and given I do not remove e-mails that contain any useful information from the folder I have these notifications in, I have quite good context in form of e- mail threads containing these notifications. Yes, if somebody edits their response, it won't trigger another notification, so this is not perfect, but still I think it is pretty usable. -- Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL
