Speaking of Git hosting / forges / thingies… I just realised that the way in which sr.ht manages patches is actually very similar to what I had in mind, at least conceptually. And… it looks like they somehow have figured out a way to represent whether or not the patches were applied in this nifty Web UI

– If you follow the link to a proposed patch for example you also get another nice interface explaining how to deal with the patch

– As well as a nifty (if you expand it out) little CLI snippet you can paste into your Terminal like:

$ curl -s https://lists.sr.ht/~migadu/alps-devel/patches/36196/mbox | git am -3

Neat! 👌 Some good inspiration to draw from there… (even if I still don’t like the idea of using Email).