Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:31:45 +0300
> Cc: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 26.08.2021 20:59, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > Many
> > don't use mail at all for development, and all they're used to is the
> > GitLab/Hub way of doing it.
> 
> Email is used by virtually everyone (for example, to receive 
> notifications about others' actions or messages), what's "unusual" for 
> many is sending patches over email. Or inlining them in comments/messages.

No, Lars is right: I've heard quite a lot of people saying that they
feel uneasy to write email messages.

> > So it's easier for them -- it feels safe and familiar for them to do
> > development by clicking around in a web browser.
> 
> We also have a bunch of formal rules for submissions which tend to seem 
> intimidating. A CI with an automated checker running against all PRs can 
> alleviate that problem.

Automation can alleviate only some of the violations, a minority IME.
For example, there's no automation known to me that can fix the commit
log entry format.

But anyway, what prevents us from having those same checkers running
on our machines as part of "git am"?