Re:Mailing lists vs Github
by rjzzleep on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:34AM
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This is a very long (4.5k words long) and in depth article.
Maybe you could write it with a shorter TL;DR focused on the main differences between mailing lists vs. github.
With more in depth discussions like diff formats and mailing list software at a later point in time. Right now it just reads as a massive blob of text intertwined with detailed tutorials in between.
Anyway, IMHO they're two different use cases with two different audiences. I quite enjoyed the sometimes not so nice discussions on patches on the mplayer ml. But I also like the fairly simple fork, merge request github workflow(but maybe that's because i'm no longer an active maintainer anywhere).
I think there should be more mailing lists for some things. It seems to me as if people tend to see a lot of things as an either or. Either you use mailing lists for everything or you put all your annoying conversations in github issues. Why?
Maybe you could write it with a shorter TL;DR focused on the main differences between mailing lists vs. github.
With more in depth discussions like diff formats and mailing list software at a later point in time. Right now it just reads as a massive blob of text intertwined with detailed tutorials in between.
Anyway, IMHO they're two different use cases with two different audiences. I quite enjoyed the sometimes not so nice discussions on patches on the mplayer ml. But I also like the fairly simple fork, merge request github workflow(but maybe that's because i'm no longer an active maintainer anywhere).
I think there should be more mailing lists for some things. It seems to me as if people tend to see a lot of things as an either or. Either you use mailing lists for everything or you put all your annoying conversations in github issues. Why?