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by 0xbadcafebee 979 days ago
> workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors

A GitHub PR is way more steps than e-mailing a patch to a mailing list, and far less accessible. Have you never done the "sign the contributor license agreement and get the GitHub bot to approve it" polka? I've done it a dozen times now, it's painful and way more gatekeepery than just emailing a patch.

> but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful process and is incapable of improvement

Who hurt you?