[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] docs: Document GitLab merge request process (email alternative)

[Axel Davy]

On 13/12/2018 17:57, Mathias Fröhlich wrote:
> Hi,
> Initially it seemed to me that I am about the only one sticking with mailing lists.
> And I personally feel like a too small contributor to really try to influence your
> decisions too much. But these recent hand full of mails all tell me that I am not
> that alone. I personally did contribute to several projects during the past years.
> All that only in part time, thus it had to be *very* efficient for myself. And that is
> something that I achieved by a consistent 'interface' to all those projects. Just
> my widely used and highly convenient mail client. So, all that worked in a sufficiently
> efficient way because I could combine this kind of 'work' even with my private mail
> that I could handle in between with that single 'interface'. So going to any web site
> there is already a detour and having multiple of them for each such project gives an
> even longer detour. Okay today it's mostly mesa that is left as well as a communication
> middle end used in vizsim applications. But going away too far away from a mailing list
> will be mostly a loss of efficiency for me.
> As I said, my two cents, that should not keep you all from doing changes that finally
> increase your all efficiency ...
>
> best
>
> Mathias
>
>
>

Hi,


I have to add my voice here as well.

Even though I do not feel able to give review for most of the mesa code 
base,
I appreciate to have all patches in the mailing list in my mail client.

 From time to time, I give feedback for some set of patches, for example 
when I see patches related to dri3 or that could impact Nine.

It also enables me to get an overview of all the recent works and new 
features Nine could use.

I feel like if most patches go through MR without getting a mail 
feedback, I would not be able to do those as efficiently.

I would appreciate if I could *flag* some files or directories, and when 
a MR impacts those (for example dri3 files, gallium interface, gallium 
Nine, etc),
I could get an automated mail with a summary of the MR, in order to 
encourage me to look at it.


Yours,

Axel