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The graying open source community needs fresh blood(www.theregister.com)

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cadekat@pawb.social
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Mailing lists are pretty awesome. They’re like a decentralized forum. There are even good web UIs!

That said, submitting and reviewing patches over email suuucks.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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Wrestling to get email to properly bottom post is 99.999% of the battle. (Except the code review, is rather just pull it in locally)

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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And they’re easy to archive. Not super easy to parse, usually, but at least the data is there.

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