<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:22 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Simon Cozens wrote:<br>
> How would you like these proposals to be formatted and delivered? It sounds like (from other messages) you would like this mailing list to be the official arena for the development of consensus. Would it be appropriate to raise proposals as issues in Github containing the new text, and then send an email to the list?<br>
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This can definitely be a way to do things going forward.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Kindly, this is a terrible idea. :)<br><br>This email list can not be managed with tags, milestones, open/closed status, interlinking -- and Github Issues has email list functionality, so there is no reason for this list to exist. </div><div><br></div><div>Github Issues is a complete superset of this mailing list. This list is just dead weight. <br><br></div><div>For the review and approval of final draft documents, by all involved, Github Issue is a far superior system.<br><br>If you insist, it is a clearly workable idea to continue to use this email list for final submissions, but I think it is adding needless friction, risks NOT getting consensus because of a lack of clear communication, and is only justified by "this is how we've always done things."</div><div><br></div><div>Or am I missing something that <a href="https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/">https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat/</a> is in some way not as official as <a href="https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/">https://lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-otspec/</a> ?</div></div></div>