From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract Git classes from git-svn (1/10)) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:54:23 -0500 Message-ID: <20120725055422.GB4503@burratino> References: <5004B772.3090806@pobox.com> <20120717174446.GA14244@burratino> <5005F139.8050205@pobox.com> <20120717233125.GF25325@burratino> <7vy5mhwrdl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <500F23E4.9090306@pobox.com> <20120725025507.GB13236@dcvr.yhbt.net> <500F860E.5010909@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Wong , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, robbat2@gentoo.org, Ben Walton To: Michael G Schwern X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 07:54:39 2012 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 1StuYL-0003QB-Gl for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:54:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751468Ab2GYFy2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:54:28 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:37954 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102Ab2GYFy2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:54:28 -0400 Received: by gglu4 with SMTP id u4so330269ggl.19 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:54:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=XwbWP1iqtL/YFan44tb6Kt1Jif1HlUhnj0mIpuHg5rs=; b=bzhFg+lTuAfgTg1HNc43u3JCqRTgQnhLUcC+HHLGyd+mmgaE8XHrpMDVbwEM+SkJSA SR0vJ/aG6aV94RHzvJ22j0o/E42RDevi2eOIWkc4fC7mA9SpPqf4CrPV+JANt7GhAo4p VsojHLvEH7EC0+YeuIDhnjTPgUI39dBmXKuv/WKGNKzeh+7p0NQG20DnYV6woqPr4KpG ioCmfyCKxKsnjMXgZq2pMDHsssfK6bLlWWpzVKPzFYGHnZVRhr/eJWzX9NvJCKUPKlwe eyue3YkbuAx3c0yqzRwRC6zj4R9QCwVBBQj2NOPgovM1zD5932FgvEeZ9m9oLfcqKxQV z4ZQ== Received: by 10.43.52.198 with SMTP id vn6mr21499170icb.42.1343195667356; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burratino (cl-1372.chi-02.us.sixxs.net. [2001:4978:f:55b::2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a10sm943357igd.1.2012.07.24.22.54.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <500F860E.5010909@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael G Schwern wrote: > And again, it *does not have to be zero sum*. It doesn't have to be email VS > GUI. You can have your cake and eat it too. I assume you're talking about web-based interfaces that have gateways to email, that produce inboxes like this: 24 Jul 02:46 GitHub [github] msysgit/msysgit was forked by peters 23 Jul 10:27 GitHub [msysgit/git] ce8ebc: vcs-svn: rename check_o 23 Jul 10:01 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git 23 Jul 09:50 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git 23 Jul 09:33 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git 23 Jul 09:39 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 24 (Long fi 23 Jul 09:31 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git 23 Jul 09:30 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 24 (Long fi 22 Jul 23:57 GitHub [github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git I call that pretending to have my cake, rather than having it. :) Maybe some day someone will prove me wrong and make a nice web-based tool that I don't even need to know about that mines project mailing lists. If I have to tweak my subject lines a little to help it out, that's fine with me. I think patchwork is supposed to work this way. But unless we're talking about splitting the mailing list into a bunch of mini mailing lists (like some bug trackers do), it doesn't change anything fundamental, so I'm not sure why we're discussing this. Ciao, Jonathan