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0 pointssneak2y ago0 comments

“needlessly graphical” requires a citation when it’s clear that if you use a web GUI for this you address a market of potential contributors that is three to six orders of magnitude larger.

srht is really designed for (and thus only really useful for) lone wolf developers who collaborate rarely, if ever, and with a very small number of collaborators who collaborate infrequently. It is not built for large teams with constant active collaboration, it falls down for this use case.

It’s hobby software for hobby users. (I don’t think this is a bad thing, but you should be aware of the product design goals of its author.)

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418tpot2y ago

Some of the largest and most important software is developed over email, e.g. Linux, QEMU, Firefox, etc... Don't make the mistake thinking that email doesn't scale. In fact, for most teams, the opposite is true.

bitcharmer2y ago

This is like saying that pyramids were constructed without modern cranes and bulldozers so obviously it's the right way to build stuff today. It's clearly not true but there are many power-wielding individuals in these projects who prefer to browse the web with lynx or develop in emacs and will impose this on anyone that would like to participate.

This is wrong.

r053bud2y ago

No one is forcing you to contribute to, or even use, software that uses an email-based workflow. I’d also put money on the fact that the majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow.

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sneakOP2y ago

All of the largest software is collaborated on over webapps, without exception.

Windows and Office and AWS and GCP dwarf these foss projects.

There is a reason that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple don’t use email to collaborate on software.

yjftsjthsd-h2y ago

> when it’s clear that if you use a web GUI for this you address a market of potential contributors that is three to six orders of magnitude larger.

You cannot possibly claim that the other side needs to cite their sources and then throw numbers like that out without any backing.

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