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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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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

s/IRC/XMPP/ or maybe mattermost instead of a mailing list?

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

I never really got used to IRC myself, but it's usually fine when connecting to IRC via Matrix.

BTW, what other communication channels would you have expected?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Primarily an issue tracker on codeberg, gitlab, github, or something with support for pull requests / merge requests for contributions. Direct communication is secondary for most projects, IMO unless it's big/used enough that users require direct support - in which case: Matrix.

[–] lyda@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Projects like that make me want to create a uucp network and so I can email a bang path address to get my patch.

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