Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 10:00 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:04 AM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > On September 17, 2018 4:39:48 PM MST, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.co
> > m> wrote:
> > > > This is a valid point: whatever development process is used,
> > > > drive-by contributors should be allowed to send e-mails without
> > > > needing to
> > > 
> > > subscribe
> > > > (neither to a moderated list nor to a web-UI). I don't care how
> > > > the maintainer will handle such patches, provided that they
> > > > will be
> > > 
> > > properly handled.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It really depends on what type of one-off contributor they are.
> > > 
> > > Setting up git send-email isn't trivial for everyone, if you are
> > > a gmail user and work for a company that doesn't embrace smtp so
> > > much, then having a webui and https git access will be a lot
> > > easier for one-off contributions.
> > 
> > Agree with this but that's why I don't use git-send-email
> > 
> > > Beware of thinking our setup with email is in any way simple for
> > > a newcomer to setup properly.
> > 
> > Right, but there are many other ways of doing this which still work
> > with mailing lists.
> 
> Aside from bare diffs stuffed into plaintext mails directly (which I
> is a lot harder to set up than git send-email for new people),

Well, that is how I do it: git format-patch followed by preformatted
text insertion in evolution.  I've got to say I don't find it at all
hard, but I do understand if you use outlook or gmail it can be a pain.

>  what else is there that works with mailing lists? I'd be great if we
> have other options here, since it is a fairly annoying problem for
> us.

This is more about mail tools than actual lists, isn't it?  In which
case I find the Documentation/email-clients.txt and invaluable resource
 to point people to (wait, where is it now, ah:
Documentation/process/email-clients.rst)

James