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> It’s better to pick a stable, trustworthy. and 21st-century place like GitHub or GitLab instead of SourceHut.

It's better to not make yourself (much) dependent on functionalities that only the respective software forge provides.

What would you suggest instead? How would you replace pull requests, or even sending patches via email to mailing lists?

I'd don't really see a difference between sending an email to a list or to a maintainer. Maybe that's an argument for not adding and adapting to unnecessary concepts like a web based pull request.

What if there’s more than one maintainer? How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?

> How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?

There exist many ways for this. Why does this have to be the same provider (if you don't want to self-host this functionality) as the one that hosts the server for the VCS?

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