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 331221107 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [213.167.242.64]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF2B5764 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:16:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Laurent Pinchart To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:16:53 +0300 Message-ID: <4381053.JuIGSKdRho@avalon> In-Reply-To: <20180918170147.61fe4135@gandalf.local.home> References: <20180918170147.61fe4135@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , tim.bird@sony.com Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 00:01:47 EEST Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:35:28 -0700 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:33 AM Luck, Tony wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:02:36AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> At least with Outlook the problem is partly that Outlook's model of > >>> how e-mail works isn't really able to cope with what we need, it > >>> translates everything into internal formats in a way that is at best > >>> fragile for what we need. > >> > >> Or, shock, horror, tell one-time contributors that it is OK to > >> put the patch in an attachment to the e-mail. Outlook doesn't > >> (usually) mess with the contents of attachments. > > > > And then have maintainer having hard time trying to comment on said > > patch in the attachment. I'd rather not. > > This is why I use claws-mail. One of the nice features to it, is if you > receive a patch as an attachment, you open it up, select all the text > (right-click->select all), and then hit "reply". It makes it just as if > the patch was the email. Then you can easily make your inline comments > as usual. I wouldn't mind patches sent as attachments if I could just hit a reply-as- inline shortcut that would take all attachments and properly inline them, quoting the result and opening the reply window. That should be fairly easy to implement in but more difficult if we wanted to patch all popular (and less popular) mail clients. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart