I think it’s an interesting idea, and I’d see it as fine for simple host + fetch. But as soon as you start interacting, I see it as far worse.
A personal support email may work, but as they write by the end, ticket tracking and collaborating on a platform with a shared web interface is much superior for information sharing and but also iteration (they talk about back and forth emailing earlier).
Self-hosting yet another platform/forge with its own account system is not viable to me either. (I’m still hoping for forgejo federation for a centralized account. Until then, GitHub seems like the best choice purely because it’s the biggest and everyone has an account and can contribute and post without account barriers.)
The idea that it could be a hosted repo with an integrated mailing list (and potentially bug tracker) is interesting, but ultimately, almost/actually a full forge then anyway.
Saying it’s “an interesting idea” makes it sound as if git wasn’t intended to be used like this from the start. But it was intentionally designed to allow posting patches to the Linux kernel mailing lists. It even has commands for producing email directly from the command line.
I think it’s an interesting idea, and I’d see it as fine for simple host + fetch. But as soon as you start interacting, I see it as far worse.
A personal support email may work, but as they write by the end, ticket tracking and collaborating on a platform with a shared web interface is much superior for information sharing and but also iteration (they talk about back and forth emailing earlier).
Self-hosting yet another platform/forge with its own account system is not viable to me either. (I’m still hoping for forgejo federation for a centralized account. Until then, GitHub seems like the best choice purely because it’s the biggest and everyone has an account and can contribute and post without account barriers.)
The idea that it could be a hosted repo with an integrated mailing list (and potentially bug tracker) is interesting, but ultimately, almost/actually a full forge then anyway.
Saying it’s “an interesting idea” makes it sound as if git wasn’t intended to be used like this from the start. But it was intentionally designed to allow posting patches to the Linux kernel mailing lists. It even has commands for producing email directly from the command line.
Sites like GitHub are the “idea”.