From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MALFORMED_FREEMAIL,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79D42018E for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934915AbcHEIZ3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:25:29 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:61977 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759510AbcHEIYu (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:24:50 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.141.218]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MNIO5-1bcT7I3txB-006uwT; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 10:24:02 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 10:24:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Eric Wong cc: Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , Eric Sunshine , Jeff King , Johannes Sixt , Duy Nguyen , =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=C4=99bski?= Subject: Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors In-Reply-To: <20160804201751.GA9592@starla> Message-ID: References: <8ff71aba37be979f05abf88f467ec932aa522bdd.1470051326.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> <20160804201751.GA9592@starla> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:vm6SypbDMRXE3UyK7MlhrqpeUogEDOBP8Gw4qiqGnar6VW1dycl 7VeE4Rv+XD5lGPK46Y+td6noWCyEFT9umG/4vg8LY3Z8EPM2wPA28Hjqh1s58s6LmOj7xK8 T5mDRzSIo84t4Xz6vlu2e0AaGzN/JpM8cPZ1XNt20CIsq4GDVZpUfamEEgDIX10xqhtFTks 7fBZoDt8yrhfcEeazZ4Sw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:Z2XuivVSUBs=:/iX9cQG08uS0NGUcqltTEb +c+QgRxIwlvk5Xw1mOo35e5QLY1N5rtXHdb0EcDyGiw2E5ChgPD6zIIeZKd3Yd0WR+0NXDhIi BX0lZwvwWzt83oeGr4KbFV3Kp/qrxyHmmLrw4+DY/RMDglnOmRGVGmdcFstXrLceD/wcIrrjU akJRE54xQFxVyyRxAlNj66yTD90XqdcD+wdS853pZBnOtHG5N7gPQX+DdScHvjeRZQni+zd79 6Kx5MEBXPgdAnudvNSjxuSm34KgkRboXxUCB/6m1vjWrQhOSZv8oF8pUzNdVvXyYR6Fo67vta 0z3pVXzS2Ou+Se3Coa012PgNfRFKOTb8vTlYmX4RmyIWR9Fzi9InGJirNS2ikrUvO1zwtTJn6 okLtggCb2DEMwgkLTCgFzk4EWlx/2HXzQQ356o2c30Cw/dQ+ruFG47TPnKo9vBWUc+xfd/0zT Q+8dYKdgbO21/n89T0dXhid5mxFFQhWvwnMHIAkQLgzfck4T8jed9jcJ1LJIWkmRrMkan3Siu rEDC2fUiXXSmU8fMxgdBt5VNhjT+ecR1OAYyCwYuU+c2j0omIGABtaJUqQtQmC1Cfz54bzwn3 50eYYBopesIt8mAJQTA/m4l8a5u5DIpnj2xH7gwysHjx7spiX89zO8JWVXKHDZXpeR1iuXHNe XkGfz1bwbQJDdO/7q9UsBPFdKfC4ba7nbGif0dJipfG2TEB/ihxPYQDg/ogk8VWhUHolMzkX8 yJKvtEf22sqmfRJoNX8XpXOauzqKXNAptaqilSYKOhlk7sLO0tKMvBRR84qvu9MfLQ3tup08H RV/8UGT Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Eric, On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Eric Wong wrote: > Stefan Beller wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin > > wrote: > > > I guess I have no really good idea yet, either, how to retain the ease of > > > access of sending mails to the list, yet somehow keep a strong tie with > > > the original data stored in Git. > > > > Does it have to be email? Transmitting text could be solved > > differently as well. > > I've thought a lot about this over the years still think email > is the least bad. Not only that: people are *familiar* with it. And they have *access* to it. > Anti-spam tools for other messaging systems are far behind, > proprietary, or non-existent. bugzilla.kernel.org has been hit > hard lately and I see plenty of bug-tracker-to-mail spam as a > result from projects that use web-based bug trackers. Plus, they are all centralized. Do you want to *require* contibutors to register with a new service? > I guess a blockchain (*coin) implementation might work (like > hashcash is used for email anti-spam), but the ones I've glanced > at all look like a bigger waste of electricity than email > filters. I am not even so much concerned with ecological considerations here. Just the price of entry would be prohibitive. > Of course, centralized systems are unacceptable to me; > and with that I'll never claim any network service I run > will be reliable :) Hehehe. I guess that's why the public-inbox is backed by a Git repository... BTW is it auto-mirrored anywhere? Ciao, Dscho