Hello. Gerald Henriksen wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:52:35 +0200, you wrote: |>Oh, i was talking about the Kernel. I mean, i have no real idea, |>the listing still mentions that bugs shall go over the ML, though |>they seem to prefer Bugzilla for that, .. but nonetheless. | |The Linux kernel isn't really a great example given that, while |certainly opensource, it is primarily at this stage a commercial |codebase given that a very signficant percentage of the contributors |are doing so as a paid job. When getting paid, you go with the |desires of the employeer even if they are opposite of what you would |prefer.
Yes, so it seems after almost two decades of so-called Evangelism of the Blue and other colourful. OpenBSD does not really count then no more, swimming in money now ;), and NetBSD seems to have a rather tight relation to ISC, most FreeBSD people seem to hang around some web-based things, hm, the nmh MUA and the bash bug lists are possibly.., maybe some IETF (hmm), oss-security@ stuff (though twarted through some github thing), and some lists of historical interest. I came too late to the party! I say nonetheless, i do not have twitter nor facebook, nor will ever have unless chip implant mandatory for not being expelled. I see no problems with mail except patch review, but which does neither hurt me, and then also can be worked around by placing the patch inline. Setting up mailman is terrible, though, and it seems Python 2 series becomes obsoleted, so that there a painful step to Python 3 and the "new" mailman had to be achieved. Maybe sr.ht (iirc) is a solution. Years ago i shortly thought about switching to the Fossil software, not for real code development, but only tracking the master etc. branches, because of the integrated bug tracking and other things, and those include a web forum, and that -- i just looked -- also supports sending forum posts out as email. Also indirectly, in a DB, so that data can be fetched from outside a container. Well, like that you at least seem to have notifications mails. For example, i track four DragonFly lists for many years (not a decade yet, but almost), i hope this continues to be possible. Anyway. Despite availability of good and simple to set up and secure and easy to maintain server software, i for one fail to see any problems with email, and moreover i really prefer this plain text browser-less way of reading. My normal user account does not even have browser access (i do not use it for that, that is to say; ok, lynx i use from within it), i have two others for this purpose, one with important credentials, one completely exposed for nothing but browsing. I would further separate if the important data would not remain in an unmounted encrypted volume most of the time. Pff, i do not know. --End of <[email protected]> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
