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From: jbranso@dismail.de
To: "Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net>,
	"zimoun" <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "GNU Guix maintainers" <guix-maintainers@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal: guix-mentors@gnu.org list/alias
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:53:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d5519fa8b9806020020c9c0de27a855@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k09zxzpp.fsf@elephly.net>

June 2, 2022 4:00 AM, "Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Ah sorry, I overcomplicate the discussion. :-)
> 
> Hah, no worries! It’s worth discussing this before we implement a
> workflow that ends up being *more* confusing than the status quo.
> 
>> To me, it could be nice to have a tiny script (or Guix extension or
>> subcommand), maybe in etc/ which simplifies the workflow; something
>> similar to ’etc/committer.scm’.
>> 
>> The workflow would be:
>> 
>> $ edit code
>> $ git commit
>> $ etc/mentoring.scm
>> 
>> where etc/mentoring would generate the patch(es), add X-Debbugs-CC and
>> send; assuming a correct ~/.gitconfig. And maybe this script could
>> provide a simple hint for configuring git-send-email.
>> 
>> Even, we could imagine that this tiny script would hint the user to run
>> “guix lint” or “guix style” before pressing yes at the send step.
> 
> All good ideas, though I think setting up “git send-email” is a pretty
> big problem for many people — myself included! Would be nice if that
> could be simplified, too.

I always use this website to remind myself how to use git send-email:
https://git-send-email.io/

We could out that information in the guix manual or link to it.  :)

> 
>> From my experience, the most confusing is the “wait from Debbugs ID”
>> part, i.e., check your inbox or spam. And I do not know how it could be
>> simplified.
> 
> Yes, on top of that comes the gray-listing, which increases the waiting
> time.
> 
> Perhaps… we shouldn’t use Debbugs directly. I have a couple of
> annoyances with Debbugs, including the fact that we cannot configure the
> contents of the emails it sends out. Maybe it is time to implement a
> friendlier email-based frontend…
> 
> --
> Ricardo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-03 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 20:17 proposal: guix-mentors@gnu.org list/alias Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-01 22:07 ` zimoun
2022-06-01 22:23   ` Gábor Boskovits
2022-06-02  6:17   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02  7:44     ` zimoun
2022-06-02  7:54       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 10:53       ` jbranso [this message]
2022-06-09  9:16         ` Paul Jewell
2022-06-02 14:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 15:36   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02 15:12 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-02 15:27   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-02 19:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-02 20:29   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 20:04     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-03 21:09       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-06 15:34     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-03 10:32 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-03 11:13   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-03 11:21   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-03 11:48     ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-03 11:52       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-03 15:55       ` zimoun
2022-06-22  9:22 ` zimoun
2022-06-22  9:44   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-22 12:29     ` zimoun
2022-06-22 13:26     ` Who’s in for mentoring? Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-22 13:44       ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-22 15:10       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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