[bzg]

"I can't participate or reply on the web interface, I have to sign up for something completely different to participate"

Let me correct this one: no, you don't have to sign up to anything: (1) click on a bug entry on https://updates.orgmode.org then (2) click on "try the mailto: link" link.

This is other way around: if Org goes to GitLab, GitHub-only users will have to sign up to GitLab just to report an issue, and same for GitHub.

[eslaught]

I guess you may have a different viewpoint on this. But from my perspective, that's a context switch, I have to now load up my mail client and be subjected to whatever email arrived since I last opened it.

I also don't have "mailto:" hooked up to my actual email client, so that's extra steps for me to get that set up. (Blame me for this if you want to, but I'm guessing that there are probably more people like me in the world than there are people who have their email client set up to handle "mailto:" simply due to the fact that work is required to set it to anything other than the system default.)

The question is, what are you filtering for? There are always tradeoffs, and I hope I've demonstrated that the email-based interface is not "free" even for fairly savvy tech users. For less savvy tech users, I'd consider the situation even more difficult.

[ArneBab]

This is my approach:

- Copy email eddress - M-x mu4e - S-C C-y C-c RET f <select patch exported with magit>

I found just sending an email with my contribution to be a much smoother experience than filing a pull-request.

Also M-x org-submit-bug-report

[iLemming]

It's not about specific platform. It's about accepting PRs instead of patches.

[bzg]

I hope one day both worlds will reconcile.

After all, it should be possible to have PRs sent as patches over a mailing list (and we don't need manual patches to be published as PRs.)