Quoting Nathan Kidd (2019-12-11 06:41:12) > On 2019-12-10 7:10 p.m., Jason Ekstrand wrote: > > Quoting Zebediah Figura (2019-12-10 10:58:45) > > > On 12/10/19 12:21 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:07 PM Dylan Baker <dy...@pnwbakers.com> wrote: > > > > > I think its time we discussed whether we're going to continue to do > > > > > patch review > > > > > on the mailing list, or if it it should all go through gitlab. I > > > > > think we should > > > > > stop using the mailing list, here are some reasons: > > > > > > > > > > 1) Most development is happening on gitlab at this point, patches on > > > > > the mailing > > > > > list are often overlooked > > > > > 2) The mailing list bypasses CI which potentially breaks the build > > > > > > > > What concrete change would you propose? > > > > > > Removing mention of the mailing list from documentation would be nice. > > > Also, currently the README implies that the mailing list is not only > > > acceptable but preferred: "Note that Mesa uses email mailing-lists for > > > patches submission, review and discussions." > > > > I think updating README type docs is sufficient and I think it's > > probably time we did that. > > As a recent drive-by patch submitter, updating the web page and other > docs to say "use GitLab" would have been sufficient for me. As they are > now it wasn't clear which way is preferred, so I defaulted to using > mesa-dev@ only to find that the dev focus seems to be in gitlab.fd.o and > if it wasn't for Roland watching the mailing list my patch seemed likely > to get missed. > > I also went through the work of subscribing to mesa-stable@ to nominate > there, but again it feels like I missed the de-facto channel for > suggesting a stable backport patch. Hint hint [1]. :)
Gahh, mesa-stable is a mailing list I *do* want to complete purge, MRs for backports, "cc" or "fixes" in the commit message otherwise. I'll update the docs to mention that. Dylan
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