> > “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/ >
Wouldn’t even the Outlooks, gmails and fruity things and their ilk keep the patch in a pristine state if it was added to the message as an attachment? I know Apple mail at least does weird stuff including its own version of autocarrot behind your back, but surely attachments would be kept intact? Sort of related, I dust off an exchange/outlook rant of mine from a little while back (most of it still applies, unfortunately): https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html <https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html> All the best, — Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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