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What's better than a mailing list?

by clircle 4y ago

robert_foss 4y ago
I'd say that 95% of developers would find a github/gitlab type interface more productive and easy to pick up.
- ilyt 4y ago
  The remaining 5% know how to use git
  - robert_foss 4y ago
    That's kinda of elitist. And very likely not true.
    - ilyt 4y ago
      neither is 95% number, it was a joke
  - chpatrick 4y ago
    Git has nothing to do with discussion and issue tracking.
    - sleepydog 4y ago
      git has a built-in email command.
    - ilyt 4y ago
      The comparison is not "git to github" but "mailing list + git" (aka. Linux Kernel development model) vs "github". As. You know. The thread is about mailing lists ? Technically there are git based issue trackers and code review systems but that's unrelated note
bitwize 4y ago
Discord. Twitch chat. You can raise bugs as you watch the developer's anime avatar write the code.
aliqot 4y ago
nothing, but kids dont want to hear that. github can fuck us 12 ways to sunday and people will still refuse to submit diffs via email bc it's a different paradigm.
bobajeff 4y ago
Yeah, I don't see why we need to give up email just to have a GitHub like UI for merging and pulling.
dsr_ 4y ago
A mailing list which is 1:1 accessible via a web interface and an NNTP interface.
- robert_foss 4y ago
  Sure that's better. What would be even better would be support: - CI integration - Rich markup, for images etc. - Simple patch management - Edits to messages - Issue tracking
  - dsr_ 4y ago
    What does CI have to do with a mailing list for software support? Rich markup: you can use HTML in mail. I think it's silly, but you can do that. Simple patch management: that's what version control systems are for; if your vcs doesn't support email, you can't do that. If it does, you can. Edits to messages: you mean altering the past? That's a terrible idea. Issue tracking: that's what bug trackers are for. You add a link to the bug number, or, more likely, you send a mail message to the bug tracker's email interface and get a bug number back. Send more email with the bug number in the subject and it gets added as a comment to the bug.
    - robert_foss 4y ago
      I think most people prefer having all of this functionality integrated in one place.

What's better than a mailing list?

robert_foss 4y ago

I'd say that 95% of developers would find a github/gitlab type interface more productive and easy to pick up.

ilyt 4y ago
The remaining 5% know how to use git
- robert_foss 4y ago
  That's kinda of elitist. And very likely not true.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    neither is 95% number, it was a joke
- chpatrick 4y ago
  Git has nothing to do with discussion and issue tracking.
  - sleepydog 4y ago
    git has a built-in email command.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    The comparison is not "git to github" but "mailing list + git" (aka. Linux Kernel development model) vs "github". As. You know. The thread is about mailing lists ? Technically there are git based issue trackers and code review systems but that's unrelated note

bitwize 4y ago

Discord. Twitch chat. You can raise bugs as you watch the developer's anime avatar write the code.

aliqot 4y ago

nothing, but kids dont want to hear that. github can fuck us 12 ways to sunday and people will still refuse to submit diffs via email bc it's a different paradigm.

bobajeff 4y ago

Yeah, I don't see why we need to give up email just to have a GitHub like UI for merging and pulling.

dsr_ 4y ago

A mailing list which is 1:1 accessible via a web interface and an NNTP interface.

robert_foss 4y ago
Sure that's better. What would be even better would be support: - CI integration - Rich markup, for images etc. - Simple patch management - Edits to messages - Issue tracking
- dsr_ 4y ago
  What does CI have to do with a mailing list for software support? Rich markup: you can use HTML in mail. I think it's silly, but you can do that. Simple patch management: that's what version control systems are for; if your vcs doesn't support email, you can't do that. If it does, you can. Edits to messages: you mean altering the past? That's a terrible idea. Issue tracking: that's what bug trackers are for. You add a link to the bug number, or, more likely, you send a mail message to the bug tracker's email interface and get a bug number back. Send more email with the bug number in the subject and it gets added as a comment to the bug.
  - robert_foss 4y ago
    I think most people prefer having all of this functionality integrated in one place.