git send-email with a gmail account is quite messy IMHO, I'd much rather do a pull request.
Regards //Ernst Den mån 8 juli 2019 kl 15:32 skrev Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>: > > On Saturday, 2019-07-06 13:39:16 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > > I see this as driving away contributions, esp from new people. MR's > > are annoying to create, since they require dealing with the hosting > > provider, getting it to host clones, etc. Everyone has email. > > MRs have a one-time cost of having to create an account and forking the > repo, I agree, although I really don't understand why a couple of you > guys consider that cost so high... > > Anyway, we're not talking about preventing people from sending patches > via email, or even just telling people not to do that, we are simply > updating the recommendation for people who don't know where to start. > > As for "driving away contributions", we have noticed the exact opposite, > which is exactly what we expected since that's what everyone else had > been reporting as well: web interfaces instead of email make it much > *easier* for new people to submit patches, which translated into many > new people sending patches since we enabled MRs. > > On the technical side, MRs also allow things like the pre-merge CI to > make sure we don't accidentally break the build for other people, and > that alone is enough for many of us to want to eventually not let anyone > push anything that hasn't gone through that CI, so while this is *not* > what we're talking about here, let's be clear that it's the end-goal for > many of us. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -ilia > > > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 7:41 AM Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I sent an MR to update the README, but as pointed out there I should > > > make sure people who don't look at MRs are also aware of it, so here is: > > > > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/1223 > > > > > > ---8<--- > > > diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst > > > index 4ccd72eca38a0845571c..eba097e652edde48a735 100644 > > > --- a/README.rst > > > +++ b/README.rst > > > @@ -56,5 +56,6 @@ Contributions are welcome, and step-by-step > > > instructions can be found in our > > > documentation (`docs/submittingpatches.html > > > <https://mesa3d.org/submittingpatches.html>`_). > > > > > > -Note that Mesa uses email mailing-lists for patches submission, review > > > and > > > -discussions. > > > +We recommend using GitLab Merge Requests (MRs) for patch submission and > > > +review, and email mailing-lists for discussions, but the old `git > > > send-email` > > > +method is still accepted. > > > --->8--- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mesa-dev mailing list > > > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
