alt Hacker NewsAFAIK, the author wants to work like how Source Hut and Linux kernel works: by e-mails.
When you're working with e-mails, you sync your relevant IMAP box to local, pulling all the proposed patches with it, hence the pull model.
Then you can work through the proposed changes offline, handle on your local copy and push the merged changes back online.
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Reminder that POP and IMAP are protocols, and nothing stops a code forge—or any other website—from exposing the internal messaging/notification system to users as a service on the standard IMAP ports; no one is ever required to set up a bridge/relay that sends outgoing messages to, say, the user's Fastmail/Runbox/Proton/whatever inbox. You can just let the user point their IMAP client to _your_ servers, authenticate with their username and password, and fetch the contents of notifications that way. You don't have to implement server-to-server federation typically associated with email (for incoming messages), and you don't have to worry about deliverability for outgoing mail.
All of this makes sense. Thank you for explaining. I don't think I understand the difference though.
Like are they calling the "GitHub pull request" workflow as the push model? What is "push" about it though? I can download all the pull request patches to my local and work offline, can't I?
I would love to see more projects use git-bug, which works very well for offline collaboration. All bug tracker info is stored in the repo itself. https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
It still needs work to match the capabilities of most source forges, but for small closed teams it already works very well.