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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: Gitlab Migration |
Date: | Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:12:51 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 |
On 26.08.2021 22:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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.
While there are as many habits as there are people, perhaps we should interpret it more like "write a first email message", to a particular mailing list.
There is a whole list of worries a polite and careful person can associate with that.
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"?
The point is, someone who has never contributed before can more easily see all bugs/PRs/discussions from the outside, and when they file a PR, see the checks succeed or fail (with specific complaints and recommendations) without having to involve a live person.
The ability to avoid bothering anyone directly (and risk a negative reception) can help avoid some of the worries.
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