Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes:

> On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> []
>> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find
>> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer:
>> 
>> * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring
>> format-patch and send-email and getting everything just right, using
>> instructions that depend on the local environment.
> Typically everything fits into ~/.gitconfig,
> which can be carried around on a USB-Stick.

I personnally submit all my Git patches from a machine whose
/usr/sbin/sendmail knows how to send emails, so for me configuration is
super simple. But I can imagine the pain of someone working on various
machines with various network configuration and normally using a webmail
to send emails. Sharing ~/.gitconfig does not always work because on
machine A you only can use one SMTP server, and on machine B only
another ...

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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