Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-03 Thread Stefan Beller
> Editing text files isn't that hard, we do it all the time. It is not indeed. But doing it all over again and again is hard and error prone. I did re-read the man page on git format-patch and found the --notes option, which I am going to try to use in my workflow. That way I only need to update

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-03 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Michael Haggerty" Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:28 AM On 11/21/2014 07:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Michael Haggerty writes: I don't think that those iterations changed anything substantial that overlaps with my version, but TBH it's such a pain in the ass working with patches

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-03 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-12-03 03.20, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Michael Haggerty writes: >> >>> It seems like a few desirable features are being talked about here, and >>> summarizing the discussion as "centralized" vs "decentralized" is too >>> simplistic. W

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > I don't think there's any reason that newcomers should need more > iterations than regulars to finish a patch. Regulars are actually > held to a higher standard, so they are likely to need more iterations. > > A common mistake for newcomers, that I haven't learned yet h

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Stefan Beller wrote: > How are non-regulars/newcomers, who supposingly need more iterations on > a patch, supposed to handle the inter patch change log conveniently? I think this is one of the more important issues. I don't think there's any reason that newcomers should need more iterations than

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-12-02 Thread Stefan Beller
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Haggerty writes: > >> It seems like a few desirable features are being talked about here, and >> summarizing the discussion as "centralized" vs "decentralized" is too >> simplistic. What is really important? >> >> 1. Convenient and

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty writes: > It seems like a few desirable features are being talked about here, and > summarizing the discussion as "centralized" vs "decentralized" is too > simplistic. What is really important? > > 1. Convenient and efficient, including for newcomers > 2. Usable while offline > 3

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread Damien Robert
> A bot could subscribe to the list and create branches in a public repo. > (This idea feels familiar -- didn't somebody attempt this already?) Thomas Rast maintains git notes that link git commits to their gmane discussion, you can get them with [remote "mailnotes"] url = git://github.com/tras

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > My ideal would be to invert the procedure. Let the patches in a public > Git repository somewhere be the primary artifact, and let the review > process be focused there. Let email be an alternative interface to the > central review

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Branchaud
On 14-11-28 09:31 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 11/27/2014 06:46 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >> On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> [] >>> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find >>> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: >>> >>> * Submitting patches t

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 11/27/2014 11:53 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >> On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: >>> [...] >> In short: >> We can ask every contributor, if the patch send to the mailing list >> is available on a public Git-repo, and what the branch name is, >> like _V2.. Does

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 11/27/2014 06:46 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: > [] >> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find >> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: >> >> * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring >> form

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-28 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Matthieu Moy" Torsten Bögershausen writes: On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: [] Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring format-patch and

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-27 Thread Eric Wong
Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > * Or I save the emails to a temporary directory (awkward because, Oh > > Horror, I use Thunderbird and not mutt as email client), hope that I've > > guessed the right place to apply them, run "git am", and later try t

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-27 Thread Matthieu Moy
Torsten Bögershausen writes: > On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: > [] >> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find >> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: >> >> * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring >> format-patch and send-em

Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

2014-11-27 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: [] > Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find > cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: > > * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring > format-patch and send-email and getting everything just right, u

Our cumbersome mailing list workflow (was: Re: [PATCH 0/6] repack_without_refs(): convert to string_list)

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 11/21/2014 07:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Haggerty writes: > >> I don't think that those iterations changed anything substantial that >> overlaps with my version, but TBH it's such a pain in the ass working >> with patches in email that I don't think I'll go to the effort of >> chec