On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 06:48:28PM +0100, Sbastien Hinderer wrote: > Further down in your email, you were mentionning the fact that today's > development implies a lot of noise and I certainly agree with that. The > advantage I can see in things like GitHub, though, is that you have the > option to opt-out of threads. Which you don't have with a mailing-list.
Well, to a certain extent the effort it takes to meaningfully participate in a list-based development community in the first place often does something to elimate the lowest level noise. > Apart from Linux's kernel, are there that many projects that still use > lists to share and review code? OpenBSD is one. In fact, NetBSD is also still quite receptive to patches via their lists.
