Linux and E-mail

Did you know that the development of the Linux kernel is coordinated by email?

Greg Kroah-Hartman had a talk about the internal kitchen of the development: https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/

Email is used for the following reasons:

1. Simplicity

2. Locality (you can work without Internet connection as required by Github, Gitlab, Gerrit and others)

3. Many Linux developers are blind, and text-based console mail clients are perfectly suited for screen readers.

If the project managers in companies that contribute to Linux need to monitor the status of tasks, a special service is used that subscribes to LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List)

Moreover, many kernel developers use console mail clients Mutt, Alpine or a client in Emacs.

Greg also admitted that almost no one reads the entire mailing list completely. Basically, everyone puts their mail filters.

By the way, not all people use git, as this is not an obligatory tool. This is argued that not all companies allow employees to use git for licensing reasons. Andrew Morton generally uses only e-mail, for example.

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