Why kernel development still uses email
Email is an amazing tool. I don&#x27;t understand the rush to get rid of it.<p>It is a free standard with many implementations on both the client and server. It is exceptionally easy to manage email. Many servers have great systems for categorizing emails and storing them long-term. Email is fast. Everyone has one.<p>There is this weird myth that Email magically kills productivity while Slack and GitHub don&#x27;t. I never understood this - slack and GitHub have a lot more distraction with their social media components.<p>I see the day coming soon when in order to work with other people I&#x27;ll need to find and install one of the x tens of IM clients. The day when I can&#x27;t find anything because it is in a million places and its real hard to search 10 years of conversation when messages don&#x27;t have basic metadata like a subject. :(