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 26982C4360C for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F39222BE for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726758AbfIZNL7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:11:59 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0022.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.22]:39580 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725836AbfIZNL7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:11:59 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 574 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:11:59 EDT Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118C7180515DB for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146796D93; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:02:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-HE-Tag: tub60_895f490a6660a X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3159 Received: from [192.168.1.39] (unknown [65.39.69.237]) (Authenticated sender: rostedt@goodmis.org) by omf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:40:15 +0200 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <1811089.yxvLMk49Ug@kreacher> <20190923162001.GD6005@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Re: Kernel development collaboration platform wish list To: Geert Uytterhoeven , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , workflows@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Bjorn Helgaas , Jiri Kosina , Konstantin Ryabitsev From: Steven Rostedt Message-ID: <575CE8BF-4C3A-4AEB-8749-9D2B92FCD4D3@goodmis.org> Sender: workflows-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org That would be wonderful. -- Steve On September 26, 2019 12:18:18 PM GMT+02:00, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:19 PM 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. >> >> 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. 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. :-) > >And if it's done right, it may solve (or make it harder to show) other >bad review >behavior, like: > - Top posting review comments, >- Quoting a 2000-line patch when commenting on a single line deep down. > >Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity and top posting.