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Do you know if something similar exists for mailing lists?

ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.

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something like this http://ost.io/?

More than year ago I had idea of creating mailing list hosted in Git itself. Made some prototype - https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com.

Sounds interesting. I'll have a look at this. Thanks!

So something a little more formal than chat?

With longer messages and asynchronous, so basically email. It seems to me that mailing lists solve a different problem than chat or bug trackers. They allow to discuss about the project itself, which is necessary if you have > 1 main dev. That's something that sourceforge did and github does not, probably by design. Maybe something like discourse could work for that.

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