From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D378CC35280 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA6E218DE for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726681AbfJBJzj (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2019 05:55:39 -0400 Received: from cloudserver094114.home.pl ([79.96.170.134]:51952 "EHLO cloudserver094114.home.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725765AbfJBJzj (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2019 05:55:39 -0400 Received: from 79.184.253.225.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl (79.184.253.225) (HELO kreacher.localnet) by serwer1319399.home.pl (79.96.170.134) with SMTP (IdeaSmtpServer 0.83.292) id 3681733aa1936cac; Wed, 2 Oct 2019 11:55:37 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Bjorn Helgaas , Jiri Kosina , Konstantin Ryabitsev Subject: Re: Kernel development collaboration platform wish list Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:55:37 +0200 Message-ID: <2432650.iS68q0zTR2@kreacher> In-Reply-To: <20190923162001.GD6005@mit.edu> References: <1811089.yxvLMk49Ug@kreacher> <20190923162001.GD6005@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: workflows-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Monday, September 23, 2019 6:20:01 PM CEST Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > One of the things I'd like to add as a strong desire is the ability to > review patches via web if that's what users would like to do. There > are some real benefits for web-based review. It means that if you > need to see greater context, it's relatively easy to do this. It also > is convenient to be able to see the conversation for a particular hunk > of code right alongside the code. I totally agree. That may not be clear from my original posting (sorry about that), but it was my basic assumption that the web-based functionality would be there. > It's clear that whatever we do, it needs to be compatible with e-mail. > That's very clear. But it would be useful if we can support both the > e-mail and web-based review. Right. > There have some prototypes that have > been floated which shows that it is at least possible; perhaps > imperfectly, but something which provides a bidrectional gateway > between those who perfer to use e-mail and those that prefer to use a > web-based UI would be able to do it. > > There will be many potential kernel contributors who will be used to > web-based UI's such as those that are available on github. So while > remaining e-mail compatible, having some way of allow as many > operations to be done via web interfaces might help us get some newer > developers who are more comfortable to living on the web than some of > us more senior developers who remember when "gopher" was a text-based > search engine, and not a mascot for the Go programming langauge. :-) I agree. Cheers, Rafael