Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow

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From: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes:

On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote:
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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 ...

The bit I find awkward for the send-email step is the creation of the "to" and "cc" lists. I tend to create the command line in a separate file so that I can re-use it for V2 etc. and even then I end up with all patches going to the full to/cc list.

Michael's original discussion email did feel to summarise the isses [1] well.

--
Philip
[1] System Problems are Wicked problems :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
www.poppendieck.com/wicked.htm


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