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As someone who has never used mailing lists before (for software development), how much harder/less advantageous it is to migrate to an issues or thread-based a
by knighthack 2y ago
As someone who has never used mailing lists before (for software development), how much harder/less advantageous it is to migrate to an issues or thread-based approach, like with Github?
And why not?
- dharmab 2y agoThe short version is: - Distributing patches via email is more scalable than web hosting. Even GitHub could not host the level of activity happening on the LKML mailing list - Web hosting has a variety of access and legal problems when working with international teams; email crosses borders more easily - Email is a decentralized and distributed system that prevents any single company from controlling a project's development infrastructure (release infrastructure is another story, but multiple companies will generally manage their own release process anyway)