Brodie RobertsonMailing lists are in kind of a death spiral, projects like Linux will likely use them into the foreseeable future but as other projects move away from them it becomes harder to on board people, leading to more projects doing away with them, leading to on boarding being harder.
When every project had a mailing list it was a reasonable expectation that you know how they work, you understand mailing list etiquette (like how it's expected you understand Github today) but if there's only a handful that use them it's much less reasonable to assume that
If you're as important as the Linux kernel people will jump through a bunch of hoops to learn your processes but if you're just some random FOSS project that's getting less likely to happen. Simply just compare any projects mailing list archives from last month and 10 years ago.
NiceMicro@BrodieOnLinux I literally read about people in corporate Linux who upstreamed one thing they did but it was so painful to get the patch go through the mailing list, that they decided to never upstream any of their stuff ever again.
Source: I don't remember, I read it in either a YT comment or here on the Fedi.
Ian Douglas Scott@nicemicro @BrodieOnLinux Yeah. People complain about companies not upstreaming their changes. But you want to run your open source project so that the people working at those companies will be pushing internally to invest in upstreaming as much as possible, rather than begging their managers to not make them deal with your mailing list.
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@BrodieOnLinux so we stan the revival of the old ways until more people sub to mailing lists?