On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 09:00:12AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:27:46AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> > patch attachments seems hypocritical.  Changing the kernel docs
> > allow patch attachments could be a good start to making life
> > easier for contributors without SMTP or IMAP access.

> > Are many MUAs still incapable of handling them?

> It's not really that they are incapable of "handling" them, it's that
> patches-as-attachments make it significantly harder to do code review in
> a way that is convenient to developers. While some MUAs will properly
> inline-quote an attached text/plain file when you hit "Reply All",
> many others won't, requiring manual copy-pasting in order to comment on
> actual patch contents.

It's not just the recieving end either - persuading some MTAs to encode
things as text can be a challenge.