On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 04:25:17PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote: > 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.
This is by no means necessarily true. The OpenBSD project has a read-only mirror of the cvs repository available on github. Many people use the github mirror to pull arbitrary versions of files and produce diffs, but _all_ of the development work is effectively done on lists, (or via private mail).
