From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:53:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189626781.5597.2.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E83B16.2070608@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:16 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Chris Friesen wrote:
> >> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>
> >>> +Thunderbird (GUI)
> >>> +
> >>> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
> >>> +coerce it into being nice.
> >>
> >> Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in
> >> Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...
> >
> > Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones,
> > which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and
> > comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).
>
> Interestingly, Thunderbird does this right and simply
> adds text/plain attachments to the quoted text.
>
Devolution allows the same, but most other mailers dont. Esp the text
based onces which are the majority under the people you want reviews
from.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 17:16 [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 18:38 ` Lee Revell
2007-09-11 18:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 5:07 ` WANG Cong
2007-09-11 22:05 ` Sami Farin
2007-09-12 3:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 18:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 18:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 19:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 18:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 5:24 ` WANG Cong
2007-09-12 5:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 15:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-12 15:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:37 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-11 19:42 ` Martin Bligh
2007-09-11 19:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-12 3:26 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 18:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-12 18:17 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 22:35 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-12 19:16 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-12 19:53 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-12 23:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:54 ` Stefan Richter
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