From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Separate Mailing Lists for Patches vs General Dev Discussion? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:05:01 +0200 Message-ID: <8737muwxde.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5796782D.1010104@gmx.net> <8760rsa88t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSWwx-0006Rl-9W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:05:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSWws-0000oW-2k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:05:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Vincent Legoll's message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:47:28 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: guix-devel Hi, Vincent Legoll skribis: > But resurrection & real use of patchwork (or any other consensus > web tracker) would be a plus for at least some of us newcomers > from different horizons. The instance at is not widely used, it seems. Part of the problem is that it often does not automatically detect whether a patch has already been committed (requiring manual intervention), and does not recognize patch series and revisions. Newer versions of Patchwork fix the latter, as can be seen at . Not sure about the former. Maybe we could register at ozlabs.org to see the difference? > I can understand the repulsion against some of them, but a PR-like > enabled one could ease the on-boarding of new contributors. So if > it's acceptable to committers, why not try to use one a bit more > regularly ? Some of us prefer an email-based workflow, though there=E2=80=99s no consen= sus. I=E2=80=99ve tried to look for tools that would allow not only email but al= so a CLI or Web UI, as you might have seen in the ML archive, but to no avail. So, concrete suggestions are welcome. :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.