[dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

Qiu, Michael michael.qiu at intel.com
Mon May 4 14:39:37 CEST 2015


On 5/2/2015 1:19 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 12:45:12PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>>>   - GitHub manages the patches via pull requests and can be easily seen
>>> via a web browser.
>>>   - The down side is you do have to use a web browser to do some work, but
>>> the bulk of the everyday work would be done as it is today.
>>>     - I think we all have a web browser now :-)
>> Yes, but as you said above, using a web browser doesn't make reviewing patches
>> faster.  In fact, I would assert that it slows the process down, as it
>> prevents quick, easy command line access to patch review (as you have with a
>> properly configured MUA).  That seems like we're going in the opposite
>> direction of at least one problem we would like to solve.
> I agree. Having a web browser interface for reviews etc. is acceptable
> only if people can still continue to use e-mail if they prefer.
> I don't know how github works in this regard but patches should still
> appear on the mailing list and it should be still possible to comment
> them via mailing list.

How it comes?

As I know if use github, the maillist will be meaningless.

And do you know some area on the earth maybe have issue with github?

Anyway, Github is OK to me, but I prefer maillist :).

Thanks,
Michael 

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