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=-4.0 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 564991F859 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752504AbcHIMIE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:08:04 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:53298 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752045AbcHIMID (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 08:08:03 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.141.218]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LdHqj-1aoiSe04VF-00iW3w; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:07:45 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:07:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Michael Haggerty cc: Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , Eric Sunshine , Jeff King , Johannes Sixt , Duy Nguyen , =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=C4=99bski?= , Richard Ipsum , Eric Wong , Josh Triplett , Lars Schneider , Philip Oakley Subject: Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors In-Reply-To: <6c937f79-2b82-619d-51fe-adccbe09bd66@alum.mit.edu> Message-ID: References: <8ff71aba37be979f05abf88f467ec932aa522bdd.1470051326.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> <6c937f79-2b82-619d-51fe-adccbe09bd66@alum.mit.edu> 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:v/H/x6IkCmGRjIE7VdK2eQf224bUnODnlGVaaqxbAsT2nqAZIPZ G3RZowDC0YwAGlvjE6HALSVVCcuhuOI1w138VuYr09BDHk14Se4X2S/OMOaG3eX9WrEr7F1 4Uvf/lu8+5Bbec5uNLXgoLPbZdZ2+U+NOPtVMHBPa+PzzASFs6pM+EswgQPFqHVRhTrqrra oda8rkmeX/GFp6q6XscEw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:pgBy6fdVoTE=:QReXvMDoKNMcqZbOizpzXI 4hHdmRIgzkTDRZtBRpzUdPhCz8/QNeBXkGB867wUtzOQGjbin4de/e1kkcw7cb/H3L0AIzEYG iUpcjoAdv0vFpyqWbFlLWBwasdaF1yL0u8IWoneNDrADW7rzxsg3UXxfiIPGSkVxkdnT5/xZY TfdqwqzRTr0M1N36tqfdkimU0Ho+jCzpBrVorGXR5bVMccwgndzFg76zQ8zPKpcXNzJadDUac bx6k9fTuUBiMiYZO846D57obbdUFjnHlT9sH2wre8O4xGIm7dYH3NaIHHRMUnaWPnBkifc3eq WBmsdUR2R5zmaLdeEXD1RPKSS7/nYtdFGyP5GOToyHamJI+RcbmHaLc2dXM9P81Mpu6M+VWQw uxvda14X0wBzF4x9Hd2L0RGzbp/EGFlU2VDA9kBivk1n8BLNmQfO9i0ld7wWrPL1czKEIQigq L8oZ7Fd1tivAwc9SssxbmbUGkS93tmd7E+5WyymiBIItqELtLhpuH1AJbcOh/H8fzcNiKdfak C2eD0joR54DKAlRMxkz4Jcte7edcFdvqBK9V3IJirW4BKfa8fpm+qoX2Rv4e3FOXc2W//exvB KjeBjva4dEUYTHiayQY7Zus42mGcw4LAf35tY0XRBKmLMs/qTmGB/Tsl3KXbjuiSGRj7vNi4R NnWo1HBGokxZLV0OOYx/0dGgqIzgxR0LVkTs3WJtdaqFwxKYqlx6D9Qil7gAvtjNviJLkiSbk K8WNkQ5P17HXPHRizOoo4p/Qs9vGVtqm0UU5WfpxSldyuJ210hxfjgULkFKBhr8OEuRLDn/Vk CAwN0mb Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 08/04/2016 05:58 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > [...] > > Even requiring every contributor to register with GitHub would be too > > much of a limitation, I would wager. > > [...] > > Is it *really* so insane to consider moving collaboration on the Git > project to GitHub or some other similar platform? Speaking for myself, I do prefer GitHub's UI to mail, by a lot. Not only because it is more focused on the code, but because it integrates so nicely with Git, which email distinctly does not. So I personally would not have the least bit of a problem to switch to GitHub (that's indeed what Git for Windows did, getting substantially more contributions than we would otherwise have). And of course I use the email notifications quite a bit. They are really convenient: I get my updates via my mail program, still, and the discussion I want to participate in is just one click away. The reason why I stated that GitHub is out of the question is that I expected resistance against it. But you are right: I should not have ruled it out so categorically, it is not at all my call to make. Ciao, Dscho