Re: [RFE] Migration to gitlab

[Tadeus Prastowo]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 2:23 PM Konstantin Kharlamov <address@hidden> wrote:
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> В Вс, мар 17, 2019 at 4:14 ПП (PM), Tadeus Prastowo
> <address@hidden> написал:
> > IMO, I feel more comfortable with the current Emacs model because I
> > see less noise in the interface.  Furthermore, the current model
> > allows me to do my own way of automation against a stable simple
> > interface (plain-text e-mails and textual command lines have been
> > around for a long time).  This may not be welcoming to newcomers, but
> > I once was a newcomer in the Linux kernel dev but found nothing so
> > difficult about it.
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> The automation sounds a bit abstract,

The automation of copying and pasting message-id and the like.

> but I guess you still can do it
> if gitlab have enabled replying/opening of merge requests through mails.

As you wrote in the initial e-mail, e-mails are not the primary means
of gitlab model, and so, how far it can be stretched and how long it
will keep being supported remain to be seen.  Seeing the stretching is
rather easy because it can be done now.  But, it is impossible to see
how long it will keep being supported in the gitlab model.

> Also, Linux kernel and git has "patchwork" site that essentially tracks
> open patch-series, versions of patches, comments to them, allows to
> download latest series… It is more advanced than just the mailing
> list as GNU Emacs has.

Yes, as you pointed out in the initial e-mail, a mailing list itself
is not enough.  That causes the chore of copying and pasting and the
like, which can be automated, especially if Emacs is used.  The
perspective that I support is that of heterogeneity.  IMO, the gitlab
model is into homogeneity: one uniform system for everything, but that
sacrifices flexibility.

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Best regards,
Tadeus