From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gitlab Migration Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:41:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83bl5kro2i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <87o89kw0hl.fsf@gnus.org> <0c369b25-aedd-1fdf-4813-503f27e42c7c@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, danflscr@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 21:43:07 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 1mJLHG-0000st-RP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:43:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40960 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJLHF-0007ZK-Ow for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJLFy-0006s1-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJLFy-0005LZ-2l; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1439 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJLFx-0006ZQ-MK; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:41:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0c369b25-aedd-1fdf-4813-503f27e42c7c@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:31:45 +0300) 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:273078 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:31:45 +0300 > Cc: Daniel Fleischer , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 26.08.2021 20:59, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > Many > > don't use mail at all for development, and all they're used to is the > > GitLab/Hub way of doing it. > > Email is used by virtually everyone (for example, to receive > notifications about others' actions or messages), what's "unusual" for > many is sending patches over email. Or inlining them in comments/messages. No, Lars is right: I've heard quite a lot of people saying that they feel uneasy to write email messages. > > So it's easier for them -- it feels safe and familiar for them to do > > development by clicking around in a web browser. > > We also have a bunch of formal rules for submissions which tend to seem > intimidating. A CI with an automated checker running against all PRs can > alleviate that problem. Automation can alleviate only some of the violations, a minority IME. For example, there's no automation known to me that can fix the commit log entry format. But anyway, what prevents us from having those same checkers running on our machines as part of "git am"?