From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:24:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1416423000-4323-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com> <1416578950-23210-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> <546F4B5B.2060508@alum.mit.edu> <5473CD28.5020405@alum.mit.edu> <54776367.1010104@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Michael Haggerty , Junio C Hamano , Stefan Beller , Jonathan Nieder , Ronnie Sahlberg , git@vger.kernel.org To: Torsten =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6gershausen?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 27 19:24:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu3jw-0006gR-M1 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:24:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751115AbaK0SYY convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:24:24 -0500 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:45928 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041AbaK0SYY (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:24:24 -0500 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id sARIOABJ013028 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:24:10 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id sARIOCe5006004; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:24:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <54776367.1010104@web.de> ("Torsten \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?B\=F6gersha\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?usen\=22's\?\= message of "Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:46:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:24:11 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: sARIOABJ013028 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1417717452.04013@jih6VNklx2yynvrYX3dFEg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Torsten B=F6gershausen writes: > On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: > [] >> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find >> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: >>=20 >> * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring >> format-patch and send-email and getting everything just right, using >> instructions that depend on the local environment. > Typically everything fits into ~/.gitconfig, > which can be carried around on a USB-Stick. I personnally submit all my Git patches from a machine whose /usr/sbin/sendmail knows how to send emails, so for me configuration is super simple. But I can imagine the pain of someone working on various machines with various network configuration and normally using a webmai= l to send emails. Sharing ~/.gitconfig does not always work because on machine A you only can use one SMTP server, and on machine B only another ... --=20 Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/