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>As always, it's worth pointing out that this is just about the Linux kernel. Different scale, different developer community, different code structure, differen
by catern 10y ago
>As always, it's worth pointing out that this is just about the Linux kernel. Different scale, different developer community, different code structure, different testing/CI methodology (i.e. practically none) than just about every other project out there.
Eh? Patches on mailing lists is the "traditional" way for open source projects to operate. Many projects "still" do things this way - indeed I wish more projects did, for the reasons outlined in this article!
- notacoward 10y agoYou're trying to refute a much stronger claim than I actually made. I was pointing out these differences to explain why what's best for the Linux kernel might not be best for another project. I wasn't saying email is bad, that it couldn't be the best for any other project, etc. The space of projects for which email is a good choice might be larger than just the Linux kernel, but it's much much smaller than the whole space of open-source projects as well. Given this community's tendency to cargo-cult whatever the highest-profile projects do without thinking about how different circumstances might affect applicability, I thought it was worth highlighting.