[$] Why kernel development still uses email
In a world full of fancy development tools and sites, the kernel project'sdependence on email and mailing lists can seem quaintly dated, if notpositively prehistoric. But, as Greg Kroah-Hartman pointed out in a Kernel Recipes talk titled "Patches carved into stone tablets", there are somegood reasons for the kernel community's choices. Rather than being aholdover from an older era, email remains the best way to manage a projectas large as the kernel.