On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 19:01, Kieran Kunhya <kieran...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > For new contributors git send-email is annoying. For people wanting to > push, the .mbox format is annoying, Gmail doesn't support it any more. > And you can't get new contributors to start using CLI based email > clients or run their own mail server, that's not going to happen. > As a fresh contributor, setting up git send-email was a hassle, but not an insurmountable obstacle. Though I'd argue that git send-email is a bigger liability for regular developers. A lot of developers seem to be using Gmail, which means they need to have "less secure apps" enabled at the time they use git send-email. So they are forced to choose between security and convenience. I.e. having to temporarily enable "less secure apps" every time they submit, or accept the risk of weakened security for their account. > > A solution like Gitlab is the only way forward. It has worked well for > dav1d, it can run regression tests on all platforms for all commits: > https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d > > Merges are done with one push of a button. Yes, the branch sprawl is > not great but it's better than now. > It has inline patch reviews which are nice. > FWIW, I'd add that branch-based PRs as implemented with GitHub greatly reduce the turnaround for receiving feedback and addressing the raised issues. All you have to do is force-push on your PR branch, and the PR is cleanly updated. This is in contrast with having to use git send-email, where the emails containing the stale patches will continue to litter patchwork and your mailboxes. Also, IIRC, when you update a branch, the regression tests for all pending PRs on the branch are automatically rerun. This should help address the conflicts in the pending PRs sooner rather than later. Not sure what the status of GitLab is wrt to these features, but I'd expect it to not be very far behind. Best regards, Manolis _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
