Re: GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

["Qiu, Michael" <michael.qiu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 5/2/2015 1:33 AM, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 12:45:12PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>> Yes, but as you said above, using a web browser doesn't make reviewing patches
>> faster.  In fact, I would assert that it slows the process down, as it prevents
>> quick, easy command line access to patch review (as you have with a properly
>> configured MUA).  That seems like we're going in the opposite direction of at
>> least one problem we would like to solve.
> Normally I'm a big command-line supporter. However I have found reviewing 
> patches by email for me is about the most painful workflow.

What mail client do you use? I think  mail client supporting thread mode
is important for patch review.

Thanks,
Michael
>
> The emails are pages and pages.
>
> The replies from commenters are buried in the walls of text.
>
> Replies to replies keep shifting farther off the edge of the screen. The code 
> gets weirder and weirder to try to read.
>
> Quickly reading over the patchset by scrolling through to get the flavor of 
> it, to see if I'm qualified to review it, and look at the parts I actually 
> know about is much harder.
>
> I can go to one place to see every candidate patchset out there, the GH Pull 
> Request page. Then I can just sync up the branch and test it on my own systems 
> to see if it works, not just try to read it.
>
> Github automatically minimizes old comments that are already fixed, so they 
> don't keep consuming space and mental bandwidth from the review.
>
> All in all, I'd be able to review more DPDK patches faster with the GH 
> interface than having them in the mailing list.
>
> Matthew.
>