From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
To: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Cc: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>, Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ELPA: where is chess developed?
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:54:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr6Kx=Osk5ChN8LZzETm70DZ+=_7GgXp4rB01ucS66W7CQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87369yc79r.fsf@dick>
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> > Just curious, can you elaborate why the ability to push gives you a tight
> > feedback loop?
>
> Notice how belabored the email-patch mechanism is for prospective
> contributors without push access. Nature of the beast I'm afraid...
> there's
> always at least one niggling fixup for the smallest patch submission, and
> for a
> 50-commit-behind-50-commit-ahead merge, there's going to be order of 10
> fixups. The verbal back-and-forth required is prohibitively costly for a
> largely inactive repo like emacs-chess.
>
> The web-based "pull request" mechanism is much more sane than iterating
> emails
> as it's always clear which of the author's iterations is latest, but
> that's a
> separate issue.
>
Ah, I understood something else. I agree with what you say.
Question for maintainers: is it actually mandatory that all changes are
submitted through patches on the ML? If we need to submit lot of
patches, can we just point to an external repository on some branch?
Kind regards,
Philippe
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-22 22:35 ELPA: where is chess developed? Jack Hill
2020-03-23 4:26 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-23 13:50 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-23 14:27 ` Mario Lang
2020-03-23 15:12 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-24 8:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-03-24 11:38 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-03-24 11:54 ` Philippe Vaucher [this message]
2020-03-24 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-24 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-27 2:59 ` pull requests Richard Stallman
2020-03-27 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-28 2:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-28 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-27 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 13:00 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 14:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 15:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 19:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 19:34 ` 조성빈
2020-03-27 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 20:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-28 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-28 17:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-30 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 12:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 12:55 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-30 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 13:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 14:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 15:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 17:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-02 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-17 3:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 16:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-30 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 8:25 ` 조성빈
2020-03-30 11:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-30 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-30 17:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-03-27 16:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-27 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-28 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:58 ` ELPA: where is chess developed? Stefan Monnier
2020-03-23 14:25 ` Mario Lang
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