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Written by Cayetano Santos on 2025-01-28 at 21:09

Mailing lists vs Github

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html

Pros and Cons of Two Styles of OSS

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Written by Simon Tournier on 2025-01-29 at 11:25

@csantosb Interesting reading!

Another example that also illustrated the paradox*: Guix translation.

Before, the Guix project used only the Translation Project and its Robot. Free to use whatever local editor and then send to the Robot using the mail server of your choice. And the Robot is very stringent on what it accepts. Therefore, many (me included! 😀) were complaining… Well, contributing was considered “difficult”.

Now, Guix uses a Weblate instance. For contributing, you need a recent web-browser and to create an account. Well, I’m not convinced it promotes user autonomy. And the interface is as stringent as the Robot. People are happier (me included! 😀) and it’s considered “easy” to contribute.

Collective behaviour appears to me very interesting, no?

The speech: yeah we value freedom and user-autonomy, “simple” over “easy”, etc. Then, the concrete practise: please make it “easy” although we loose some “user autonomy”.

Please do not take me wrong: Weblate is a good thing fot the Guix project. I’m just pointing an example for the complexity of the topic and a kind of paradox. 😀

• The paradox is: most of the time, community advocates about freedom, user autonomy, etc. and in the same time, community asks for tools that locks them (via web-broswer GUI, central server, etc.).

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Written by futurile on 2025-01-29 at 12:27

@zimoun @csantosb

The paradox is: most of the time, community advocates about freedom, user autonomy, etc. and in the same time, community asks for tools that locks them (via web-broswer GUI, central server, etc.).

Yeah, first thing I ever learnt doing 'user research' was users are a bag of contradictions! :-))))

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Written by Cayetano Santos on 2025-01-29 at 15:12

@zimoun Interesting general debate: to what extent protecting whatever the values you try to promote, against more convenient alternatives, is worth it or not over the long term.

That remains a more general question well beyond this discussion. Further on, is it feasible to reach such a degree of convenience in agreement with these values ?

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Written by Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt: on 2025-01-29 at 19:25

@csantosb

Broke :sadlinux:

Development based around mailing lists

Woke :gayashell:

Github

Bespoke :blobcatlord:

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Written by tyil on 2025-01-30 at 07:26

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Its also a pretty old article, too bad "Let this lesson be broader than Github though" did not resonate with the unwashed masses. Proprietary platform usage for free software projects is only getting worse.

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