On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 02:04:16PM -0400, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 9:06 AM Ondřej Fiala <ofi...@airmail.cc> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat May 4, 2024 at 3:11 AM CEST, flow gg wrote:
> > > I have tried git-send-email, but it failed. You can say that I am stupid,
> > > but I would say that this is because of various reasons such as my area
> > and
> > > the network. It is really not what I can solve.
> > > Maybe I will spend a lot of energy trying it in the future, but this is
> > > because I have submitted thousands of lines of code. I don't want to give
> > > up. If it is from the beginning, it will cause abandonment.
> > >
> > > Maybe I am younger here in FFMPEG. I have a lot of good young people
> > around
> > > me. They all use github/lab by default, and there will be the same
> > problem
> > > as me, resulting in abandonment.
> > I feel it's worth pointing out that SourceHut and mailing list-based
> > workflows
> > are becoming popular in some young-dev circles. I am in my twenties for
> > reference.
> >
> > With that said, I did not realize how problematic setting up git send-email
> > can be with some providers when I wrote what you're replying to. The
> > replies
> > quite surprised me honestly because when I first set up git send-email, I
> > was using completely average providers and it was all pretty effortless,
> > I just adjusted git's config and it worked perfectly.
> >
> > > I don't really care about the quality between these tools. I think people
> > > are important. I only want to use it, and I can facilitate the real
> > > reviewer of Review.
> > >
> > > I don't know if I can say my personal feelings here, but I will say:
> > >
> > > I feel despised by this passage, which makes me uncomfortable. If you
> > are a
> > > reviewer, maybe I have no chance to contribute, but anyway, I have made
> > > some contributions.
> > >
> > > > How can anyone use git, but not git send-email? Any decent email
> > provider
> > > > has support for external clients over SMTP. And I believe you *can*
> >
> > > > actually dictate that people don't attach patches -- if you have
> > control
> > > > over the mailing list software, you can set up a filter that rejects
> > such
> > > > emails and auto-replies with instructions on how to send them properly.
> > > I think I should have the right to contribute
> > Likewise.
> >
> > Regarding the part about rejecting patches as attachments, I was
> > specifically
> > reacting to Rémi claiming that he can't dictate that people don't use them,
> > which technically he can. I never said it's a good idea, though it might
> > have
> > sounded that way. Sorry about that.
> >
> > As I said multiple times, I feel like contributing over email is a lot
> > about
> > having good tooling. For example, the email client I use treats all parts
> > of
> > a multipart message the same, so it has no issues replying to text
> > attachments
> > instead of the message body. As such, there is no difference between
> > attached
> > patches and patches in the message body with such a client.
> >
> 
> Is it me or has this thread and topic run its course?
> We understand your preference is email and it is duly noted, the
> overwhelming majority of the community still seem to prefer github/gitlab.
> Any further discussion at this point looks off topic, there are better
> venues for discussing the technical merits of email vs github/gitlab.

Is it me or are the top 3 people who objected to gitlab on vaccation, banned
and busy ?
Maybe we should wait for them to have an oppertunity to comment. One of them
happens to be an experienced gitlab admin

thx

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