On 01/28/2016 01:41 AM, Levente Polyak wrote:

Dear arch-security subscribers, Dear arch-general subscribers,

the policy of the arch-security mailinglist is currently changed to a restricted advisory announcements only list due to certain reason roughly explained on the arch-devops [0] and arch-dev-public [1] lists.

As there was no announcement and discussion about this change yet, we want to invite you to discuss the restriction of the arch-security mailinglist on the CC-ed arch-general list. After making sure you are subscribed to arch-general [2], you can simply reply to this announcement by posting directly to the arch-general mailinglist.

Our main goal behind this change is to separate relevant official announcements and advisories from possibly long and frequent discussions. The security teams idea is that each announcement to the arch-security list should be considered as an urgent alert and reviewed as soon as possible, without the need to filter them from general conversations and exchange of "unverified" information.

sincerely, Levente (anthraxx)

[0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-devops/2016-January/000007.html [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2015-December/027581.h... [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general

As the ongoing discussion did not result in general concerns while going on for approximately 3 weeks, we decided to stick to the current policy and keep this list exclusively for announcements. The description of this mailing list will be adjusted accordingly to avoid possible confusion. If any security related topic pops up and somebody feels like it should be discussed please go ahead and create a thread on arch-general. cheers, Levente