My most useful emails come from family and groups.io. Rarely some helpdesk response, though if it says reboot something, i stop talking to them.
It's an ongoing debate in one of the projects I work with if we should move to a more forge oriented development process. For all it's faults email does provide a good record of discussion as well as evidence of review.
The project management capabilities of GitLab are pretty nice, for what my opinion is worth.
Then Sourcehut is built around email, so that might be a good middle ground.
We use GitLab for hosting and CI as well as the issue tracker. Just the patch workflow goes over email although we have considered just maintainers submitting pull requests once the review and tags have been collected on list.
A lot of the more senior maintainers find the process of patch review in the webui suboptimal compared to email.
I've not heard of this before, and a search finds a lot about Minecraft?
Forge is a newish term for systems like github, gitlab, forgejo, gitea, etc that provide source control, project management, issues, and discussion features for projects.
Wait does that mean comment thread OP isn’t using any of those things?
IMAP is useful. POP can crawl back to the bowels of hell from whence it came.
It seems like a category error to compare email to Discord or Slack. The latter two are distinct companies and not protocols.
E-mail barely hanging on between spam, broken HTML and an oligopoly of providers.
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