Email isn’t “the only way” to send patches. In fact, he addresses that:
It doesn’t have to be by email, either. Any method of sending this data to the maintainer is fine. For example, I’m on Mastodon – so you could send me a repository URL via Mastodon if you really wanted to (provided you didn’t mind my responses being very short). Or you could send patches via any other communications medium that you and the maintainer are both on, if it lets you attach files to messages.
His preferred method is just sending a URL over email. You can use any communication method if you both already have an account.
I agree that some public discussion place for patches is an absolute necessity.
No idea what that would look like for the blogger though, maybe Lemmy isn’t even that bad? You don’t even need a Lemmy account to interact, he could use Mastodon to respond.
But yeah the overall vibe of the blog is very much luddite and boomer.
Email isn’t “the only way” to send patches. In fact, he addresses that:
His preferred method is just sending a URL over email. You can use any communication method if you both already have an account.
I agree that some public discussion place for patches is an absolute necessity.
No idea what that would look like for the blogger though, maybe Lemmy isn’t even that bad? You don’t even need a Lemmy account to interact, he could use Mastodon to respond.
But yeah the overall vibe of the blog is very much luddite and boomer.