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You say this definitively, as if every OSS project uses GitHub exclusively for all communication. This is obviously not the case.
by cjaybo 5y ago
You say this definitively, as if every OSS project uses GitHub exclusively for all communication. This is obviously not the case.
- deckard1 5y agoirony really is dead. The creator of git still uses the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Though I can certainly think of a dozen other ways to communicate that aren't GitHub or Slack.
- prepend 5y agoThey’d use something visible or their process is borked and not transparent and not welcoming to new users. It doesn’t matter if it’s a listserv, or an IRC channel, or a GitHub issue. But it does matter if the collaborations are invisible to the team and to others on the project. It’s their project so they are welcome to organize as they wish, but for a healthy open source project, I think having some collaboration method where newcomers can understand all the meaningful and helpful discussions is a good thing. If a super awesome person is doing 1:1 calls/DMs/Emails all the time, that’s going to be tough to maintain. Not to mention a pain for any work where it’s multiple people collaborating and coordinating a changes that impact each other.