On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:26:01AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote: > I haven't had time to really take a look at sr.ht, but that's not > going to stop me from commenting! :) > First, as Lars says, nothing stops people from using some !Github > toolchain, and if it's good, then I'm sure people can vote with their > feet. My concern is that IETF business conducted off IETF lists might be problematic. We have an answer to that: confirm consensus on IETF mailing lists. I'm OK with that. But I would prefer to have a better e-mail interface from GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/etc. > [...] > > With that said, the design philosophy Michael describes (no JS, > mailing list focused) seems to me to abandon a bunch of what people > like about Github. I know that Linux (for instance) has a mailing-list > based process, but most open source projects I am familiar with prefer > a Web-based process, in particular for code/change review. For > instance, both Firefox and Chromium lean very hard on their online > code review tools for patch development, interdiffs, etc., and > wouldn't really want to go back to e-mail. So, from that perspective, > this seems like it might be kind of a regression in features. +1. I like services that give me a nice REST JSON API and which use JS judiciously to reduce page reload events. Nico --
