Why kernel development still uses email
Email is an amazing tool. I don't understand the rush to get rid of it.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.There is this weird myth that Email magically kills productivity while Slack and GitHub don't. I never understood this - slack and GitHub have a lot more distraction with their social media components.I see the day coming soon when in order to work with other people I'll need to find and install one of the x tens of IM clients. The day when I can't find anything because it is in a million places and its real hard to search 10 years of conversation when messages don't have basic metadata like a subject. :(