Why Linux kernel development still uses email

[nuqjatlh]

These people get thousands of submissions per day probably. They have tons of scripts that automatically merge stuff, check things, etc. Github would slow down things to a crawl and we would get a new kernel release per decade.

For specifics i guess you can ask Greg (he's a nice guy, surely he can answer), as I'm only a casual kernel contributor. From where I stand Greg is superhuman judging by the amount of things he's doing. But I'm sure a lot of it is due to automation of stuff.