# Discuss Dusk OS

Three ways are offered to discuss Dusk OS or Collapse OS:

1. Reach me directly
2. Subscribe to the mailing list
3. Chat on IRC

## Reach me directly

My name is Virgil Dupras and I can be reached at virgil@duskos.org.

### Private discussions with anonymous interlocutors

When I receive a private email from an unknown address that requires a
thoughtful response, I will ignore it. Normally, I wouldn't mind answering your
email, but in this era of LLMs and trolls, it's too likely that I end up
wasting my thoughtfulness to nobody's benefit.

If I can be reasonably certain that you're a human of good faith, then sure,
I'll answer it, but otherwise, I'd ask you to direct your communication to the
mailing list. With the list, even if the troll or the LLM doesn't care about
the thoughtful response, at least the world at large can benefit from it.

## Mailing list

Discussion about Dusk OS and Collapse OS takes place on a sourcehut mailing
list[1]. It works like a regular mailing list, but sourcehut's insistance on
using the `~` and `/` characters in its email addresses makes some crappier
service providers such as **gmail** choke on it. If you're using such provider,
you might have troubles with the list, in particular: replying to subjects
won't reply to the list, only the previous sender. You might also want to refer
to sourcehut's docs on the subject[2].

Also, sourcehut will **drop HTML emails**. I can't say I blame them. Don't use
HTML emails.

[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss
[2]: https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/#posting

### Topics under discussion

The primary goal of this mailing list is to allow technical discussions around
Dusk OS and Collapse OS to happen, more specifically:

* Technical questions not covered by the documentation. I know Dusk OS and
  Collapse OS too much and have blind spots for what is good introductory
  material. Please let me know when documentation is insufficient.
* Discussions around design decisions, tradeoffs, etc..
* Patches and code review

If the subject you want to bring fits in one of these categories, then it's
always on-topic, even when it's very specific to your particular context.

Broader topics are fine too, we just have to keep in mind the reason for this
list to exist.

## IRC

The `#duskos` and `#collapseos` channels on LiberaChat[3] have some people in
it. There's routinely myself.

[3]: https://libera.chat/