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				willol13847y@gitpush probably because it's a read-only repo. They aren't using GitHub for development, they are using a mailing list
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				 bjoer751767y@gitpush The development trees are on other locations. bjoer751767y@gitpush The development trees are on other locations.
 The mail-list is only for discussions.
 The answer here lists all locations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions...
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				@refex I ask too much, how will this help them? Forget the case of Linux, assuming any other project does that, how is this helpful? Backup? or any other reason?
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				willol13847y@gitpush I find using a mailing list terrible yeah (didn't work on Linux but on Git, which uses the same process). It seems that the greybeards like it anyway :shrug:
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				@varundey I wouldn't think that git's creator prefers other methods for version control...
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				@datablitz7 probably not clear but my context when I was talking about mailing list were features, bug reports and other things. It might help them to keep similar conversations together. Not sure how they designed it tho
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