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Noob questions:

PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right?

When I'm assessing the merit of any given project, I'd want see if there's a backlog of PRs, right?

Do projects using email-patch workflows set up listservs for receiving patches?




> PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right?

Not necessarily. For a 'lone wolf' project that might be the case, but some projects have public mailing-list archives, e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/

I think it would be necessary to do some manual copy+pasting, or else use custom scripts/tooling, to turn such mailing-list archive pages into patch files (for git apply) or mbox files (for git am).




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