A new free-software forge: sr.ht

It would be an interesting next step to offer some email-client-inspired web interfaces to archives of the mailing list; having an email-style development method doesn't has to mean that programs have to use SMTP and POP/IMAP. I see this style as being fundamentally that development is represented with a sequence of human-readable messages which tend to be a couple thousand words each, where it is possible to search the database across all threads associated with a single project (i.e., see all new messages to a mailing list), rather than having to look at a number of separate places to see whether each of them has new messages, and you can see a list of results with one line per message when the message is much longer than that in full.

Being able to insert and receive messages by SMTP is useful for a lot of people's existing tooling, but I think the more important aspect of this project style is that model of what an interaction consists of, and I think it would be valuable to offer that to people who don't prefer to use SMTP for development.