Many projects use email for patch submission, so for me it's just another useful skill to learn. I assumed that sending the patches via email was the easy part. So whatever works best for you guys... ;-)
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alex Sassmannshausen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 03:04:56PM +0200, David Craven wrote: >>> Just chiming in here... >>> >>> I know that github being propietary software probably won't be >>> considered, but it is unarguably an awesome piece of software, >>> possibly the best propietary software since google search :-) I think >>> that using github would improve the efficiency of submitting/reviewing >>> patches. But I'm still new to the sending patches via email thing - so >>> I might get used to it... >> >> I would really prefer to not have to use a web page for contributing to >> Guix. I find the tools `git send-email` and `git am` to be very easy to >> use and much faster than a web site. > > Just to throw this in the mix: I contribute to a project called Koha, > which uses Bugzilla as it's tracker. I know previously this has come up > and I think there are a number of people who don't like it — the reason > I bring it up now, is because there is an extension for git called > git-bz, which basically provides commandline access to bugzilla — at > least for patch management (and I think commenting… though not 100% > sure). > > You can apply patches, including entire series attached to specific bugs > to a codebase, upload new patches (including 'obsoleting' previous > versions). > > Though I guess you'd still have to perform 'read' operations through the > browser. > > I don't have a horse in this race, just throwing in 2¢… :-) > > Happy hacking, > > Alex
