Re: Gitlab Migration

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 17:24, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> 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.

To quote Rich Hickey, a pull request is not a value.

A patch is just a value, so no wonder it's easier to make a patch reach
an Emacs maintainer than to maneuver an online collaboration platform
into some state.