From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Adolf Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development Emacs based on Emacs and magit. Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:37:15 +0200 Message-ID: <2703a10201df67502654c5738b976747@condition-alpha.com> References: <611f5a183bf746fabc68fe61e622441d@condition-alpha.com> <834kavm3sw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40485"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: hongyi.zhao@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 17:38:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mOM8H-000ANb-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:38:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40354 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOM8G-0000sf-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOM79-0008FI-Uh for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.16]:18410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOM75-0007zh-CZ; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [46.244.193.34] (helo=condition-alpha.com) by smtprelay04.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mOM6y-00075J-2r; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:37:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <834kavm3sw.fsf@gnu.org> X-Df-Sender: YWxleGFuZGVyLmFkb2xmQGNvbmRpdGlvbi1hbHBoYS5jb20= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=80.67.18.16; envelope-from=alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com; helo=smtprelay04.ispgateway.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274456 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Alexander Adolf >> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:48:16 +0200 >> >> Nonetheless you have a point in that thanks to magit, the only times I >> will have to visit a git forge's website is to create and manage my >> account there, and to create and delete repositories. Everything else >> can be done from within magit and forge in Emacs. > > This is not about you or me or any other power user of Emacs. This is > about occasional contributors to Emacs, who are accustomed to use the > PR workflow via Web forms. IMO it would be counter-productive to > request those contributors to install and use Magit, just to be able > to submit a change to us. Fully agree. I guess my - admittedly poorly expressed - intention was to make the point that, in addition to allowing "web users" accustomed to using web forms to do just that, long-standing contributors could use magit and continue doing everything from within Emacs. So my hope was that this could help making/keeping both "camps" happy. Cheers, --alexander