What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?

posted 1 year ago

Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

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ck_@discuss.tchncs.de

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1 year ago

To anyone interested, there is a comprehensive tutorial about how to use Git with email to contribute to projects like these.

https://git-send-email.io/

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