Re: GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

["Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 5/1/15, 12:31 PM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Normally I'm a big command-line supporter. However I have found reviewing
>patches by email for me is about the most painful workflow.
>
>The emails are pages and pages.
>
>The replies from commenters are buried in the walls of text.
>
>Replies to replies keep shifting farther off the edge of the screen. The
>code 
>gets weirder and weirder to try to read.
>
>Quickly reading over the patchset by scrolling through to get the flavor
>of 
>it, to see if I'm qualified to review it, and look at the parts I
>actually 
>know about is much harder.
>
>I can go to one place to see every candidate patchset out there, the GH
>Pull 
>Request page. Then I can just sync up the branch and test it on my own
>systems 
>to see if it works, not just try to read it.
>
>Github automatically minimizes old comments that are already fixed, so
>they 
>don't keep consuming space and mental bandwidth from the review.
>
>All in all, I'd be able to review more DPDK patches faster with the GH
>interface than having them in the mailing list.

+1 and very well stated.
>
>Matthew.
>