Re:Email and Git = <3
by 418tpot on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:14AM
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Some of the largest and most important software is developed over email, e.g. Linux, QEMU, Firefox, etc... Don't make the mistake thinking that email doesn't scale. In fact, for most teams, the opposite is true.
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Re:Email and Git = <3
by bitcharmer on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:27AM
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This is like saying that pyramids were constructed without modern cranes and bulldozers so obviously it's the right way to build stuff today. It's clearly not true but there are many power-wielding individuals in these projects who prefer to browse the web with lynx or develop in emacs and will impose this on anyone that would like to participate.
This is wrong.
No one is forcing you to contribute to, or even use, software that uses an email-based workflow. I’d also put money on the fact that the majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow.
Re:Email and Git = <3
by bitcharmer on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:34PM
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> No one is forcing you to contribute
This is exactly the problematic attitude. I'm an OpenJDK author but not linux kernel contributor for mainly this reason. There are many people like me.
> majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow
This reminds me the many absurd conversations I had from my time in Goldman Sachs, few years ago. People with 15+ year tenures claiming Slang is the best answer to any- and everything. They just didn't know any better and stubbornly stuck to tooling and mindset straight out of 1995.
Re:Email and Git = <3
by necrotic_comp on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:33PM
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All of the largest software is collaborated on over webapps, without exception.
Windows and Office and AWS and GCP dwarf these foss projects.
There is a reason that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple don’t use email to collaborate on software.