Accept patches through public mailing list

[a1batross]

GitHub is non-free platform and many people who really support free software, just refuse to use it.

I suggest making a mailing list for those people.

[appetrosyan]

And post it to #837

[psymin]

Perhaps this should be hosted somewhere other than Github?

[a1batross]

@psymin hosting doesn't make any difference, git is decentralized. For example, I can easily mirror it to my own Gitea instance.

The problem is contributing. Many, many people don't accept Microsoft GitHub.

[nukeop]

I'm talking to people from SpywareWatchdog, someone over there is willing to set up a working email address for signatures.

[AlexVRud]

We need an email where patches will be sent and people who will sign these patches.

[brown121407]

@nukeop, we can set up a Sourcehut repo and a mailing list over there with very little effort (two clicks). That would make it very easy to accept patches and even just plain requests by people who don't know how to send patches. Let us know if you think it's a good idea and agree to link it to this repo, because there's no reason to become fragmented. I volunteer to manage it, apply patches and all that, if you need someone.

[gorshunovr]

Emails in support of RMS would need to be added to this repo into a subdirectory as files for traceability. Would you do that, @brown121407 @nukeop ?

[brown121407]

@gorshunovr, like saving the actual message file in a folder specifically made to store the mails themselves, besides the one with the signatures? Wouldn't having a public mailing list suffice?

[gorshunovr]

@brown121407 public mailing list would suffice.

[Tyil]

I think this can be closed now that ~tyil/[email protected] has been added to the page. Archives can be found at https://lists.sr.ht/~tyil/rms-support, for those who're interested.