<html><head></head><body><div>I support keeping the mailing list because many people love this style for good reasons,</div><div>such as a more complete overview, simple and more reliable long-term archiving,<br>simple offline reading and editing, and more technical and social independence.</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate also the pros of the online discussion mode because it is more interactive<br>(one can for instance place +1 etc. reactions on posts and fix older texts in situ).<br>There is also more flexibility/convenience to selectively follow certain threads or persons</div><div>with adjustable notifications by email etc.</div><div><br>I suggest, as far as possible, better combining the advantages of the two approaches.</div><div><br>For instance, besides the usual GitHub "issues" and "pull requests" sections, <br>have separate "questions" and "announcements" sections for more user-oriented exchange</div><div>(if not directly supported by GitHub, may resort to using suitable tags).<br>Automatically feed the posts done there into the mailing list, <br>and maybe also the other way round.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David</div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2023-03-17 at 11:04 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello all openssl-users mailing list contributors,<br></div><div><br></div><div>as the focus of the OpenSSL users and developers community is now on<br></div><div>the OpenSSL project GitHub page [1] we are considering closing this<br></div><div>mailing list. We would like to move to using Issues [2] and Pull<br></div><div>requests [3] in GitHub to discuss topics and ask questions related to<br></div><div>using and developing OpenSSL in a single location as this provides<br></div><div>better tracking and searching and we believe this will help us serve<br></div><div>our community better.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We would still keep the mailing list read-only so the archives of the<br></div><div>discussions are not lost.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We are seeking input on this potential change if you are currently<br></div><div>actively contributing on openssl-users mailing list discussion and you<br></div><div>believe such a change would substantially reduce your participation in<br></div><div>the project.<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl/">https://github.com/openssl/openssl/</a><br></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues">https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues</a><br></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pulls">https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pulls</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>