Hi, On Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:40:49 CET Jason Ekstrand wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:56 AM Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:52 AM Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:42 AM Samuel Pitoiset > > > <samuel.pitoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Personally, I will continue to use the list, at least for a simplicity > > > > point of view. I'm not sure if using a new tool will improve quality > > and > > > > code review process. > > > > > > > > Though, if the majority reports that is really nice to use, I will > > > > probably change my mind. Not a strong reject. > > > > > > I agree. We've been using the MR interface for xf86-video-amdgpu and > > > I find it awkward compared to the mailing list. Maybe it just takes > > > getting used to. I also feel less inclined to do drive by patch > > > review if I have to explicitly delve into the browser to look at the > > > outstanding MRs. Over email, sometimes I see a patch set in my in box > > > that piques my interest and I find some time to review it when I might > > > not have otherwise if the bar were higher. > > > > FWIW I also do a lot of drive-by reviews. Perhaps those aren't > > valuable -- dunno. Either way, if it's not in email, I won't end up > > seeing it. > > > > I find this commentary on drive-by reviews interesting. Personally, I > don't find going to the web interface to be a problem at all but that may > be because my e-mail is also in my web browser and it's as easy as clicking > a link. Also, since I'm an active contributor who's likely to be making > MRs and commenting on various MRs on a regular basis, I'm already on the MR > page looking at it. If you randomly scrolled through the MR list in the > same way you randomly scroll through the mailing list, would you be equally > inclined to give drive-by reviews? That's an honest hypothetical question.
Initially it seemed to me that I am about the only one sticking with mailing lists. And I personally feel like a too small contributor to really try to influence your decisions too much. But these recent hand full of mails all tell me that I am not that alone. I personally did contribute to several projects during the past years. All that only in part time, thus it had to be *very* efficient for myself. And that is something that I achieved by a consistent 'interface' to all those projects. Just my widely used and highly convenient mail client. So, all that worked in a sufficiently efficient way because I could combine this kind of 'work' even with my private mail that I could handle in between with that single 'interface'. So going to any web site there is already a detour and having multiple of them for each such project gives an even longer detour. Okay today it's mostly mesa that is left as well as a communication middle end used in vizsim applications. But going away too far away from a mailing list will be mostly a loss of efficiency for me. As I said, my two cents, that should not keep you all from doing changes that finally increase your all efficiency ... best Mathias _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
