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What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with those saying mailing lists are intimidating. I don't know if others are using dedicated tools or something but I find web based mailing list UIs just incomprehensibly bad and difficult to navigate.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most web-based mailing list UIs are honestly incredibly bad, but you don’t need to use them, you can choose any email client you want.

[–] o11c@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with mailing lists is that no mailing list provider ever supports "subscribe to this message tree".

As a result, either you get constant spam, or you don't get half the replies.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If mailing lists had a view like reddit / lemmy / slashdot / hackernews, I might be more willing to use them, but that wouldn't solve contributions for me. I have no idea how to format emails to comment on code and then follow ensuing discussions. And how would CI work?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Email how to: https://useplaintext.email

Small change: git diff origin master > mycontribution.patch and paste it into email body.

Big change: same as small, but add as attachment.

Subscribe to coreutils mailing list - low enough volume to not get overwhelmed and established enough to get a feel of the culture.

[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

If you feel like learning more about it, there is a great tutorial available:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/3347883