The QEMU project has just changed to use GitLab confidential issues
for security disclosures.

  https://www.qemu.org/contribute/security-process/

While libvirt isn't (yet) suffering the same massive AI powered bug
tsunami, I'm not seeing an especially compelling reason to continue
using email for security disclosures with such limited need-to-know
practices.

While using GitLab theoretically exposes us to greater risk of
exposure via the GitLab's own staff / infra compromise, in practice
they likely do a better job securing their infra than we do for
our mailman install. Submissions are also guaranteed TLS protection
which we can't so confidently assume for email.

We don't tend to apply any long embargo times. Our maintainers are
all trusted with commit access to libvirt.git, so from a trust POV
I feel it acceptable to have scurity disclosures visible to all of
them instead of restricted to a handful of maintainers.

The security list has  a handful of people from the distro present
who in theory can watch it for early access to disclosures. I'm
not sure if that makes a difference in practice though, especially
with all the distros suffering an AI bug tsunami leading to greatly
extended fix times.

IOW, overall a lighter weight process using GitLab confidential
issues feels like it should be sufficient for libvirt too.

With regards,
Daniel
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