Mailing list is actually very accessable IMO. You do not have to sign up for any service (with another account or some hostile captcha) but just drop your changes via e-mail (which everyone on the internet has).

With that workflow you just do your changes locally and once done you create a patch from the diff and send it afterwards to the mailing list. It is super easy with git send-mail and you should check out git-send-mail.io for infos about the git mail workflow (the site is actually by the devs of sourcehut).

EDIT: Drew also made a nice video about PR vs mail workflow here.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have to disagree from personal experience. There has only once in my life been a mailing list that it was useful to have been subscribed to, it was by a friend group. Every other mailing list that I was ever part of was a waste of time.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does that contradict the usefulness of mailing lists in context of software development? It's not a chat for anything but specifically discussing contributions, thus not any worse than discussion boards below PRs.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

maybe it doesn't.

[–] bc3114@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

https://git-send-email.io is very informative, thanks!