From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel development collaboration platform wish list
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:22:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnjf2pnw.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2432650.iS68q0zTR2@kreacher>
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> writes:
> 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.
A long time ago now (before I was involved) there was talk of extending
patchwork to allow logged in users to comment on a patch in the web UI
and have patchwork send the comment as an email on your behalf. This was
in the happier(?) days before we had SPF and DMARC, so I don't know how
feasible it would be today. (Maybe the emails would just have to come
from 'Patchwork on behalf of J. R. Developer'.) But could web-based
review be as simple as a web form that sends an email?
(I'm not advocating that this be put in patchwork straight away or
necessarily at all, but I think a proof of concept that lives off to the
side of patchwork could be an excellent use of the patchwork API!)
Regards,
Daniel
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-02 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-13 8:22 Kernel development collaboration platform wish list Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-13 11:13 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-17 21:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-18 8:05 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-18 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-13 11:37 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-13 12:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-13 12:15 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-09-13 12:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-17 22:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-02 9:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-09-17 18:40 ` Stefan Schmidt
2019-09-24 9:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 12:20 ` Stefan Schmidt
2019-09-17 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-01 3:52 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-01 4:50 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-10-01 5:04 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-23 16:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-24 1:39 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24 5:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-01 3:58 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-09-26 10:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 11:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-26 13:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-28 22:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-29 16:03 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-09-26 13:10 ` Jani Nikula
2019-09-26 13:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-09-26 14:40 ` Jani Nikula
2019-10-02 9:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-02 14:22 ` Daniel Axtens [this message]
2019-10-03 9:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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