On 10 August 2016 at 02:55, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 06:28:00PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: >> Some of these problems I hope public-inbox (or something like >> it) can fix and turn the tide towards email, again. > > This really seems like the dichotomy that drives people towards central > services like GitHub or GitLab. We need an alternative that doesn't > involve email, or at the very least, doesn't require people to use email > directly. Half of the pain in the process comes from coaxing email > clients that don't treat mail text as sacrosanct to leave it alone and > not mangle it. (Some of that would go away if we accepted attachments > with inline disposition, but not all of it. All of it would go away if > the submission process just involved "git push" to an appropriate > location.)
But submission is less important than review. And for review it is usually better (except gigantic series) to have patch text for review with the review. And threading. And (meta)-versioning of series. And place for proof-of-concept / weather-balon patches... -- Jakub Narebski -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
