Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH v2] configure: silence pkg-config's check for curses

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:36:54AM +0400, Vadim Evard wrote:
> By the way (sorry if this was discussed before and is a strong
> decision) I'd say e-mail based workflow is of course very flexible -
> and very very novice-unfriendly. Dash, I had to learn git commands
> I'd never use in my usual workflow with local or Github repos. And,
> well, I was not very good with that. 10 ways with 10 options in
> each. You all saw my previous patch mail with "fubar" header and no
> signed-off-by string.
> 
> Is there a reason you (team) don't use e.g. Github at least for
> trivial patches?

Yes, the email-based approach is the most flexible but also has a
learning curve.  For one-time contributors it can seem like wasted
effort.

The QEMU community is familiar with the email-based workflow and has
customized it.  One key idea is that all patches go through
qemu-devel@nongnu.org - even trivial patches are exposed to code review
from the whole community.  A new vector for code submission still needs
to keep this property.

For another open source project that I'm involved in I have set up a
cronjob that sends GitHub pull requests to the project mailing list.
This way the mailing list still sees all patches before they get
committed.  Replying to patches doesn't work though - you still need to
log into GitHub in order to send comments to the author.  I can't ask
all QEMU developers to do that.

Any ideas how to make GitHub work with QEMU?

Stefan