[Mesa-dev] Is it time to stop using the mailing list for patch review?

[Dylan Baker]

Do we have those and does anyone notice? I personally rarely look at the list
now unless I'm CC'd on something. That seems really bad for drive by
contributors.

But frankly I wouldn't submit to a mailing list as a drive by, it's more work to
get subscribed to mail man (so my patch goes through), set up get-send-email,
and send the patches, then unsubscribe when I'm done than it would be to sign up
for gitlab.fdo using one of the "sign-in-with" options. If you're not subscribed
you go into limbo until a list maintainer approves your patch, and I think any
follow ups. That seems even worse as most people probably aren't aware of that
behavior. Maybe I'm the only one who feels that way though. 

Dylan

Quoting Alex Deucher (2019-12-10 07:30:43)
> How do we deal with drive by fixes?  E.g., some random user submits a
> fix but doesn't want to create a gitlab account just to submit a fix?
> Whoever reviews the patch should submit an MR?
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:07 PM Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I think its time we discussed whether we're going to continue to do patch review
> > on the mailing list, or if it it should all go through gitlab. I think we should
> > stop using the mailing list, here are some reasons:
> >
> > 1) Most development is happening on gitlab at this point, patches on the mailing
> >    list are often overlooked
> > 2) The mailing list bypasses CI which potentially breaks the build
> > 3) Probably more reasons I'm forgetting.
> >
> > Please discuss,
> > Dylan
> > _______________________________________________
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> > mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
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