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: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:30:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83tujbqg4j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26901"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Fleischer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 13:32:13 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 1mJa5l-0006mk-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:32:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33872 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJa5h-0002MU-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJa4S-0001b8-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJa4S-00032k-6f; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3623 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 1mJa4R-0002Mp-92; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:30:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Fleischer on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:00:10 +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:273148 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Fleischer > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:00:10 +0300 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Philip Kaludercic [2021-08-26 Thu 17:24] *wrote*: > > > Shouldn't it be easier to send an email than create an account, navigate > > some web UI and fill in some form? The same goes for > > patches. Git{Lab,Hub} usually requires leaving the development context, > > to prepare a patch online, that requires "forking", more navigation and > > more fora. Just today I tried preparing a "pull request" on GitLab and > > didn't manage to do so, because it insisted on merging the commit into > > my own repository, no matter what I did. Just attaching a git patch > > seems much easier. > > I explicitly don't want to get into questions of what is easier because > we can't answer these objectively. Each person is used to something else > which they consider easier, where the getting used to is a long > mental process depending on personal preference and outside influence. Agreed. We don't need to force everyone to use a single workflow. We should have a platform that supports reasonably well the different popular workflows.