On 5/1/15, 12:31 PM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>Normally I'm a big command-line supporter. However I have found reviewing >patches by email for me is about the most painful workflow. > >The emails are pages and pages. > >The replies from commenters are buried in the walls of text. > >Replies to replies keep shifting farther off the edge of the screen. The >code >gets weirder and weirder to try to read. > >Quickly reading over the patchset by scrolling through to get the flavor >of >it, to see if I'm qualified to review it, and look at the parts I >actually >know about is much harder. > >I can go to one place to see every candidate patchset out there, the GH >Pull >Request page. Then I can just sync up the branch and test it on my own >systems >to see if it works, not just try to read it. > >Github automatically minimizes old comments that are already fixed, so >they >don't keep consuming space and mental bandwidth from the review. > >All in all, I'd be able to review more DPDK patches faster with the GH >interface than having them in the mailing list. +1 and very well stated. > >Matthew. >
