Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > 惠轶群 <huiyi...@gmail.com> writes: > > - Build a simple email client (maybe a web components based web app or > > wxwidgets based GUI client, they are both cross-platform) which is > > easy to use for sending patch without disrupting the mailbox format. > > I suspect it would yield a better result if the plan were to update > a popular email client and make it possible to tell it to read an > existing text file (i.e. mbox) without corrupting its contents. > People do not have to learn a new mail client if done that way.
Another bigger problem is people rely heavily on webmail UIs nowadays instead of running any local mail clients :< While Gmail provides SMTP access, it was (last I was told) incompatible with two-factor auth; so I've encountered users unable to send patches with their normal 2FA-enabled accounts. Maybe git hackers at Google have enough pull to lobby Gmail's web interface to make it easier to send plain-text patches; but I would love more to see users running local mail clients and even running their own SMTP servers. > That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-) Completely agreed; email is critical to decentralized development; but I don't believe decentralization is in the best interests of any large and powerful corporation. IMHO, what we need is a SoIS: Summer of Independent Sysadmins :> -- 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
