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> Heck even a tweet at the owner might be good enough.

I disagree with this, don't spam people. Sometimes people even go out of their way to contact you using multiple channels and it gets even more annoying.

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> There is no need to abuse the maintainer, repeatedly post the bug, harass them over twitter.

So I think the sentence you quote is meant as a first approach.

Kind of depends... I'm listening to so many github repos that I often don't pay enough attention to the notices or even keep up regularly... if it's important/urgent, I'd almost preferred that they reach out via side channel. It's a rare case for me at least.

I know it can be annoying if there's too much of it, or there's too many vectors or if you or the repo are popular. I'm not.

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