Re: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Wong
Michael G Schwern wrote: > On 2012.7.25 4:48 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > > We need to use something. Right now our choice of mailer is the best > > choice for _existing_ contributors. > > I believe this entire discussion can be reduced to that right there. > > If your process is optimized for existi

Re: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract

2012-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael G Schwern wrote: >Do we care about getting new contributors? Not if the cost is too high, no. I personally do think it is important to make life easy for new contributors, not because that will somehow compel them to work for me for free, but because it's

Re: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract

2012-07-25 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2012.7.25 4:48 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > We need to use something. Right now our choice of mailer is the best > choice for _existing_ contributors. I believe this entire discussion can be reduced to that right there. If your process is optimized for existing contributors, it will work well for e

Re: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Wong
Michael G Schwern wrote: > On 2012.7.24 7:55 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > > Except git is also a "new specialized tool". Your examples are exactly > > why I'm saddened many projects only adopted git, but not the workflow > > which _built_ git (and Linux). > > Github also has broad spectrum utility. I

Re: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract Git classes from git-svn (1/10))

2012-07-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2012.7.24 10:54 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> And again, it *does not have to be zero sum*. It doesn't have to be email VS >> GUI. You can have your cake and eat it too. > > I assume you're talking about web-based interfaces that have gateways > to email, that produce inboxes like this: > >

OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract Git classes from git-svn (1/10))

2012-07-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael G Schwern wrote: > And again, it *does not have to be zero sum*. It doesn't have to be email VS > GUI. You can have your cake and eat it too. I assume you're talking about web-based interfaces that have gateways to email, that produce inboxes like this: 24 Jul 02:46 GitHub [github]