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Q for research friends: have you started planning what to do if the US gov't suddenly restricts access to GitHub? Could happen in several ways, e.g., Microsoft has to filter DEI content to stay eligible for federal contracts or a "nothing Ukrainian" rule, but the mechanism doesn't matter: what does it that it's no longer impossible. Yes, you have a clone of your repo, but not of your issues, and how will you reconnect with contributors? If you have a plan, please share a link - thx.

@gvwilson

seems much more attractive right now, doesn’t it?

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

@xyhhx @gvwilson

I hugely prefer git send-email because I prefer truly nature of Git. And no, I will believe in when I see actual federated PR being merged, and I am not holding my breath.

So far, @sir has it right in is.gd/tqsJYV

@mcepl it will be a while before federated PRs are generally available, alas. i haven't much used send-email, but i should probably get used to it

there was talking on the mailing list about some tool to make send-email more new-user-friendly, but i can't remember what it is now

@gvwilson

@xyhhx @gvwilson

git.sr.ht/~emersion/pyonji

but my problem is that I don’t consider send-email(1) particularly unfriendly …

@mcepl yup, that's the one. i'm sure you're not alone in finding send-email intuitive; i've never used it though so i cant really weigh in

@gvwilson

@xyhhx @gvwilson

configuration may be non-trivial, but once it is done, it works reasonably well.