Cayetano Santos#B4 is a tool created to make it easier for project developers and maintainers to use a distributed development workflow that relies on patches and distribution lists for code contributions and review.
Ever wanted to contribute to #guix or #emacs commons ? A bit scary about the #email based workflow ? Afraid of having to manipulate thousands of emails locally ?
No worries: https://yhetil.org, a public-inbox based service, provides a nice web front end to browse for patches, issues and bugs you may contribute to fix: thread overview, outlining, reply links, thread download in #mbox format, everything you need to start contributing is there.
Mailing lists vs Github
https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html
> Pros and Cons of Two Styles of OSS
#deltachat, #decentralized #instantmessaging done right ? π€
Fully #distributed, based on #freesofware, #email and well known internet standards.
2018 article "The advantages of an #email-driven #git workflow", by @drewdevault, remains valid even today.
Bernhard E. Reiter#lwn covers https://aerc-mail.org/ a new terminal email client! π https://lwn.net/Articles/993498/
#EmailRenaissance #FreeSoftware
#EmailRenaissance #FreeSoftware
Want an #EmailRenaissance! As there are so many structural advantages to email, by being able to communicate to people outside of your organisation, adding #endtoendsecurity, and having your own software decide what to display how and when. Using email in an advanced way is control taken back from big IT companies. And this also explains partly why many fully email clients appear to be old these days: There is not much money to be made from them ... they don't sell your data or attention. π€ π π¬