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.

  • Piatro@programming.devEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.cafeEnglish
        2·
        9 months 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.