I’m talking about GNU here.
I just can’t seem to figure out on how to use either of them to communicate. IRCs don’t save older messages, but instead logs them. And I guess for the same reason, it is impossible to discuss anything in depth.
Mailing list is really hard to read, as it is nowhere similar to forum or tree-style comments. I can’t figure out what mailing list to message to.
Fun fact the guy behind awk sent in a patch via email cuz he thought git was too complicated or not worth the hassle.
git was designed to accept patches over email. How else would you do it?
man git-send-email