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.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If mailing lists had a view like reddit / lemmy / slashdot / hackernews, I might be more willing to use them, but that wouldn’t solve contributions for me. I have no idea how to format emails to comment on code and then follow ensuing discussions. And how would CI work?

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Email how to: https://useplaintext.email

      Small change: git diff origin master > mycontribution.patch and paste it into email body.

      Big change: same as small, but add as attachment.

      Subscribe to coreutils mailing list - low enough volume to not get overwhelmed and established enough to get a feel of the culture.