Why kernel development still uses email

> The kernel mailing lists are effectively *databases* of code and reviews just like Github and Gerrit are. They're searched more than read. So they're databases implemented on top of... email. This tells how much kernel developers hate databases. Github and Gerrit implement the database first and the email second. Patchwork's backend is - guess what - a database.

Maybe that's because (and you're pushing my buttons here :-) so many people assume that "database" == "relational database". And relational databases are crap :-)

I think most people here know what I think :-) First Normal Form databases are just a bad design for, pretty well, much everything.

Cheers,
Wol