On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 09:18:59AM -0500, Jason Stewart via Mutt-dev wrote:
Getting the
suggestions and complaints from others may reveal that one's original
plan was either mistaken or incomplete, and points the way toward a
better solution.
the same can happen in the issue itself.
The mailing list is an excellent filter.
that's what i said. only i didn't mean it in a good way. ;-)
With things like github,
people subscribe to a pet peeve, and ignore everything else. That
selects for people who are fixated on one thing, but do not give a shit
about anything else--including other users. Someone who stays
subscribed to the mailing list has to at least glance through all
discussions--even ones regarding features they don't care about. That
means a) they care enough to devote that much sustained attention to
mutt, and b) they have some context for on-going development (
strengths, weaknesses, bugs, history, goals, etc).
you seem a tad optimistic about how people interact with lists.
also, people who feel committed to a project on github/... will put the
entirety of it on watch, and thus have the same effect as being on the
list.
the difference is really what medium one prefers. the forges have the
data naturally compartmentalized, which tends to be a _good_ thing.
this degrades the mail inbox to a notification stream, while all the
actual communication happens on the forge. that might be a tad
counter-productive for a mail client project (that dog-fooding thingie),
but other than that, the response is only indicative of the age of the
audience here. :-P
