Re: Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration

[Ian Kelling]

Drew DeVault <address@hidden> writes:

> [ Disclaimer: I am affliated with SourceHut. ]
>
> No one was born with knowledge of how to use GitHub. As someone who
> frequently uses both GitHub and email, noobs are no stranger to either
> platform. Many of us just don't remember very well our first few crappy
> GitHub pull requests, from before we really understood the workflow.
>
> If you appeal to popularity as the ultimate decider, then novel
> approaches can never succeed.  It's a defeatist attitude, and I reject
> it outright.

Hey, thanks for posting.

I think we didn't properly characterize the email thing well on the
evaluation page and I've updated it. sr.ht has made things way easier
than a plain mailman list and I don't think it would stop us from
choosing it. Its listed as a pro and a con, and depending on your
perspective is how it balances.

The lack of linking between repo and lists and bugs is was listed as an
issue in our review already, and I think thats a bigger issue. If there
was some improvement around this, even if its not the final state, that
would be a huge reason to consider it more highly. For example, if I go
to a repo, its unclear how to file a bug for it. I created a new repo
for a new project, its unclear you generally want to create a list and a
bug tracker with the same name. Those kinds of things.

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