From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4977C4CECF for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B7F20820 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388969AbfIWQUM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:20:12 -0400 Received: from outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu ([18.9.28.11]:46377 "EHLO outgoing.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388829AbfIWQUM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:20:12 -0400 Received: from callcc.thunk.org (guestnat-104-133-0-98.corp.google.com [104.133.0.98] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id x8NGK1LB021370 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:20:02 -0400 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 9F646420811; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:20:01 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Bjorn Helgaas , Jiri Kosina , Konstantin Ryabitsev Subject: Re: Kernel development collaboration platform wish list Message-ID: <20190923162001.GD6005@mit.edu> References: <1811089.yxvLMk49Ug@kreacher> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1811089.yxvLMk49Ug@kreacher> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: workflows-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org One of the things I'd like to add as a strong desire is the ability to review patches via web if that's what users would like to do. There are some real benefits for web-based review. It means that if you need to see greater context, it's relatively easy to do this. It also is convenient to be able to see the conversation for a particular hunk of code right alongside the code. It's clear that whatever we do, it needs to be compatible with e-mail. That's very clear. But it would be useful if we can support both the e-mail and web-based review. There have some prototypes that have been floated which shows that it is at least possible; perhaps imperfectly, but something which provides a bidrectional gateway between those who perfer to use e-mail and those that prefer to use a web-based UI would be able to do it. There will be many potential kernel contributors who will be used to web-based UI's such as those that are available on github. So while remaining e-mail compatible, having some way of allow as many operations to be done via web interfaces might help us get some newer developers who are more comfortable to living on the web than some of us more senior developers who remember when "gopher" was a text-based search engine, and not a mascot for the Go programming langauge. :-) - Ted