From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com>
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> +Thunderbird (GUI)
>> +
>> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
>> +coerce it into being nice.
>
> Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in
> Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...
Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones,
which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and
comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 17:16 [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 18:38 ` Lee Revell
2007-09-11 18:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 5:07 ` WANG Cong
2007-09-11 22:05 ` Sami Farin
2007-09-12 3:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 18:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 18:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 19:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 18:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 5:24 ` WANG Cong
2007-09-12 5:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 15:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-12 15:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:37 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-11 19:42 ` Martin Bligh
2007-09-11 19:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-12 3:26 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 18:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-12 18:17 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 22:35 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-12 19:16 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-12 19:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 23:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:54 ` Stefan Richter
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