Like others, I think that GitHub's Issues and Pull Requests are a
total mismatch for the traffic on this mailing list.
GitHub Discussions would be a less-bad match, though I still think
that e-mail is superior.
However, I wanted to address something of a misconception: that one
would have to continually visit GitHub to read any traffic. That's
not the case. Once you have set up your GitHub account you can go a
particular project and "Watch" Issues, Pull Requests, Discussions,
et cetera. Once you do that you get e-mail notification of any new
post or comment in the selected areas, and if you send an e-mail
reply it will get filed as a comment. You can sort of treat it as a
mailing list. Not a very good one, but it sort of works.
Again, I think that e-mail is best for this sort of question/answer,
discussion format, but it isn't quite email versus not-email... it's
e-mail versus mediocre gateway to email.
