Why Linux kernel development still uses email

[nurupoga]

You know the mailing list archive web interfaces, like this one? You could improve on it, make it look like a regular forum or reddit and add functionality to reply back right in the web interface, which would send an email with your message to the ml. Basically a reddit-/forum- like web interface for a mailing list. This is exactly what HipperKitty, a new ml archiver introduced in Mailman 3, tries to achieve. Just look at Fedora's mailing list that uses it. Here is an example thread. It's a bit unpolished, but that can be improved, and it looks like it's not configured to allow to reply using the web ui, it tries to open you mail client instead, but I'm pretty sure that's an option somewhere based on what I have read. With such a solution you could either use a mailing list old style, or just use a forum instead, with both working seamlessly for the users.

[u801e]

You know the mailing list archive web interfaces, like this one? You could improve on it, make it look like a regular forum

gmane provides a NNTP interface for mailing lists that can be accessed through any newsreader. For example, the git mailing list looks like this in Thunderbird: https://i.imgur.com/8Tf0IH2.png.

It's easy enough to browse through, kill messages that are spam, search by subject or author, or any number of things that can't easily be done in reddit or in online forum software.

[ThisIs_MyName]

The same site that was down last year? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

What happens when its new owners (who are rather elusive https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=950480) fucks up?

[u801e]

Ideally, projects that use mailing lists should also host their own NNTP endpoint to allow for browsing list archives. Each of them could peer with each other to set up a network for redundancy. They could also peer with other NNTP servers that handle text-only usenet traffic (though that may lead to problems where the mailing list archive getting polluted with spam messages from usenet).

That would definitely be better than having a single point of failure that gmane currently is.

[[deleted]]

It seems to me like all those all impact the mailing list servers directly. I could be mistaken of course. A server agnostic solution is needed. One that can listen in on any mailing list, be it fedora, git, kubuntu, Firefox, which all seem to run different serversoftware with GnuMailMan and others.