"... he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise... That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty high..."
Wow. Life's rough. On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:31 AM Frank Beuth <secli...@boxdan.com> wrote: > "Linux kernel development which is driven by plain-text email > discussion needs better or alternative collaborative tooling "to bring > in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future," says > Sarah Novotny, Microsoft's representative on the Linux Foundation board. > > Said tooling could be "a text-based, email-based patch system that can > then also be represented in a way that developers who have grown up in > the last five or ten years are more familiar with," she added. > > ... > > Should it migrate toward something more like, say, issues and pull > requests on the Microsoft-owned GitHub? “I’m not saying that there will > be a move in any time that I can see my crystal ball’s broken but I do > think there needs to be expansions in the way people can enter that > workflow,” said Novotny. > > “It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer > developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch > to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail > client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other > things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to > entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time > contributor.”" > > https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/ > >
