Re: [PATCH 4/4] Documentation/process: add transparency promise to list subscription

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 11 2019 - 11:51:44 EST


On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:26:52AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Transparency is good. It it essential for everyone working under an
> embargo to know who is involved and who else is a "knower". Being
> transparent allows everyone to always make informed decisions about
> ongoing participating in a mitigation effort.
>
> Add a step to the subscription process which will notify existing
> subscribers when a new one is added.

As I don't run the mailing list software here, I don't know how much of
a burden adding this support to it would be, so I'll defer to Thomas.

We could just have something like "All new people need to announce
themselves" rule like many other private mailing lists have at times.
That would put the burden on the new person once, instead of the list
manager for every time a new person is added.

thanks,

greg k-h