From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5DCB93E for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from galahad.ideasonboard.com (galahad.ideasonboard.com [185.26.127.97]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70EACEA for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:59:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Laurent Pinchart To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 01:00:14 +0300 Message-ID: <2196355.jXBH4erg3y@avalon> In-Reply-To: <1436558412.24408.35.camel@infradead.org> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <20150710155144.34dde697@gandalf.local.home> <1436558412.24408.35.camel@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Friday 10 July 2015 21:00:12 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 15:51 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:07:06 -0700 Darren Hart wrote: > > > As far as recruitment goes, I think we're talking about barriers = to > > > first-timers and such - and git-send-email is one of those things= . > > > Eventually, a developer>=20 > > +1000 > >=20 > > I still don't use git-send-email, as I afraid that I'll blow it and= end > > up sending a thousand patches to every developer that ever touched = the > > kernel ;-) >=20 > Rather than sending messages, it's actually better to put them as > *drafts*, ready to be sent by the user's normal mailer. It's not hard= > to do this =E2=80=94 I usually dump the mails into > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Drafts/new/ for example. >=20 > And then I can *read* them before sending them, which is good practic= e > anyway. Am I the only person who often finds a final minor nit with > their own patch, in that final read-through just before hitting 'send= ' > on an email? Certainly not, but what prevents you from doing that with git-send-emai= l ? In=20 my workflow I always format patches with git-format-patch, proof-read t= hem=20 with my favourite $EDITOR and then use git-send-email to send them. > Perhaps we should provide tools which make it trivial to do the same > for various different mail clients, without users having to know wher= e, > and in what form, their drafts folders are? --=20 Regards, Laurent Pinchart