Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:00:10 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Philip Kaludercic [2021-08-26 Thu 17:24]  *wrote*:
> 
> > Shouldn't it be easier to send an email than create an account, navigate
> > some web UI and fill in some form? The same goes for
> > patches. Git{Lab,Hub} usually requires leaving the development context,
> > to prepare a patch online, that requires "forking", more navigation and
> > more fora. Just today I tried preparing a "pull request" on GitLab and
> > didn't manage to do so, because it insisted on merging the commit into
> > my own repository, no matter what I did. Just attaching a git patch
> > seems much easier.
> 
> I explicitly don't want to get into questions of what is easier because
> we can't answer these objectively. Each person is used to something else
> which they consider easier, where the getting used to is a long
> mental process depending on personal preference and outside influence.

Agreed.  We don't need to force everyone to use a single workflow.  We
should have a platform that supports reasonably well the different
popular workflows.