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: Development Emacs based on Emacs and magit. Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:15:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83fsuel1f7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <611f5a183bf746fabc68fe61e622441d@condition-alpha.com> <834kavm3sw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18627"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Hongyi Zhao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 08:16:48 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 1mODMd-0004eK-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:16:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42662 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mODMc-0004De-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mODLR-0002Dg-4V for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mODLQ-00059R-SB; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3989 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 1mODLM-0005m1-1Y; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:15:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Hongyi Zhao on Thu, 9 Sep 2021 07:11:41 +0800) 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:274424 Archived-At: > From: Hongyi Zhao > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 07:11:41 +0800 > Cc: Alexander Adolf , Emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > 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. > > Thank you for pointing this out. Considering that Emacs is patched so > frequently, has it already implemented a complete > workflow/module/macro/function to wrap the steps described here [1] > with just several or one keystroke? No, because we don't want to force anything on the contributor's workflow. Developing a change is not a one-keystroke thing, it requires writing the code, testing it, sending the patch, receiving review comments, modifying the code accordingly, etc. etc. I don't see how this could be done with a single keystroke, even in principle.