Link seems to be more about the future of LWN security roundup emails than about actual RHEL security announcement emails (the article is really just the headline). Still an interesting discussion to observe and deduce from.
For one, RSS is probably more reliable than emails, which has deliverability issues.
Of course, they will now have to deal with badly-behave clients that re-download the whole RSS feed each time they fetch updates. I guess they pick their poison.
I was more pointing progressive degeneration of functionality then some law. You can call it "ibmisation" too - most likely in the end it will be just another dead [sub]brand.
> Note: title should be 'the end of the security-announcements mailing list'. Which is outdated tech anyway...
Yes, mailing lists are clearly out of date; you can tell because they're widespread and actually work, so obviously they need to be replaced with a mishmash of slightly broken alternatives ASAP.
I realize such sarcasm is less appreciated here on HN. But this eye-rolling response encapsulates my reaction too perfectly.
It's also interesting to see RSS touted as a _less-outdated_ solution over email, given the industry has been trying to kill RSS for decades and is far more hostile to RSS than mailing lists.
TLDR: RedHat will continue to provide notifications of security fixes, however they will do so via RSS and a web portal instead of via email. No authentication or subscription is needed to access these.
The RSS feed is open to public, so is the errata page on the Portal (https://access.redhat.com/errata-search/). Subscribing to email notifications requires some sort of account, just like the mailing list did.
