[bombcar]

One thing I’ve noticed is that the people who “live in their email client” (and this applies to Outlook and to using emacs to read email) are very productive if everything is working right. I’ve seen people blow through a number of patches and discussions in their email client faster than I can even get GitHub to load the notifications.

And then there’s a philosophical discussion if burning newbie’s time or discouraging them is worth making the old guard’s time more productive- including discouraging interactions entirely.

(This is why for certain projects you can be entirely useful even if you can’t code; just as an intermediary)

[mikemcquaid]

I live in my email client and only use GitHub's email notifications. When I was working at GitHub and watching Homebrew/homebrew-core: I would regularly get >1000 a day.

I still do not miss the days of doing patch management from my email client :)

[nunez]

When you treat your inbox as a work queue and aim for zero, it's easy to be productive from within your inbox

[keepamovin]

I think the focus of attention that this workflow offers certainly has its advantages. There's likely a variety of factors at play, however!

[Hackbraten]

> This is why for certain projects you can be entirely useful even if you can’t code; just as an intermediary

Argitrage?