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What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? (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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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

IRC is fine, so are mailing lists; I use both, plus various git forges, to contribute to open source projects.

IRC is still going strong on OFTC and Libera.chat

I get that the younger folks like discord, but seriously it's a proprietary mess that locks everything behind a wall and tries to extract payment from each and every user.

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