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What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? (self.programming)
submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona to c/programming
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Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

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[โ€“] cmeerw 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never really got used to IRC myself, but it's usually fine when connecting to IRC via Matrix.

BTW, what other communication channels would you have expected?

[โ€“] onlinepersona 0 points 1 year ago

Primarily an issue tracker on codeberg, gitlab, github, or something with support for pull requests / merge requests for contributions. Direct communication is secondary for most projects, IMO unless it's big/used enough that users require direct support - in which case: Matrix.