Re: Contributing messages to an archive

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Eric Wong wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>>  1. When vger has a bad day, some messages might not reach
>>     public-inbox but they still reach any other developers that were
>>     cc-ed
>
> In that case, the notifying the admin(s) privately with an mbox
> or whatever which I can drop into my Maildir watched by
> public-inbox-watch should work fine[1].

Thanks, good to know.

>>  2. (My motivation) The git-security@googlegroups.com list receives
>>     messages about embargoed issues that should not be made public
>>     right away.  We would like to switch to a model where after the
>>     embargo expires, the discussion is made public.
>
> I suspect that is best suited for a second archive.
>
> It's simpler for readers using NNTP and Atom feeds to not get
> out-of-date messages, and filtering rules[1] would be different,
> as I suspect googlegroups allows HTML :<

Hm, I was looking forward to having it in the main archive since
that's where people look for context on a patch.

Is there a way to configure the search to look at multiple archives?

> Since I'm not a part of git-security, it might be best for you
> and/or Jeff to run that yourselves[2].  I can help out, of
> course.  I'd use public-inbox-watch setup to watch that a
> particular Maildir, and you'd move unembargoed messages into
> that.

Would you be interested in helping with Git security bug reports and
reviewing the patches that address them?  If so, we'd be happy to add
you to the list.

Thanks,
Jonathan