[PATCH] RFC: CONTRIBUTING: Embrace gitlab

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:33:16AM -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
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> 
> On 9/13/18 7:01 AM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> >> Arguably reviews on mailing lists are also decentralized metadata, but
> >> it's difficult to argue that would be convenient, at least not if you
> >> don't have the messages you want in your local mail store.
> > 
> > Wild idea: Feed the mailing lists into a public git repo? Not sure how
> > crazy that would be.
> > 
> 
> Do you mean the public-inbox? See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ and
> https://lwn.net/Articles/748184/

I don't mean any specific thing. Just thinking that would be nice to
have some way for a new developer to seed their local mbox with the
full history (or as much as you can stomach). Only helps people with
some kind of decent mua of course. Would also serves as a backup for
old timers for when disaster strikes.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel