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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Jerin Jacob" <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org, dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Jim St. Leger" <jim.st.leger@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Consider improving the DPDK contribution processes
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 14:53:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2346940.LZvDnYUUCF@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBAE1MbBxP_GhL332Sp_AkJgNORHooJK5E0zD4BLNBV63854Q@mail.gmail.com>

25/05/2020 13:58, Jerin Jacob:
> 25/05/2020 11:34, Morten Brørup:
> > sending patches over an
> > email as opposed to a well-integrated web interface workflow is so alien
> > to most people that it definitely does discourage new contributions.
> >
> > I understand the advantages of mailing lists (vendor independence,
> > universal compatibility, etc.), but after doing reviews in Github/Gitlab
> > for a while (we use those internally), going through DPDK mailing list
> > and reviewing code over email fills me with existential dread, as the
> > process feels so manual and 19th century to me.
> 
> Agree. I had a difference in opinion when I was not using those tools.
> My perspective changed after using Github and Gerrit etc.
> 
> Github pull request and integrated public CI(Travis, Shippable ,
> codecov) makes collaboration easy.
> Currently, in patchwork, we can not assign a patch other than the set
> of maintainers.
> I think, it would help the review process if the more fine-grained
> owner will be responsible for specific
> patch set.

The more fine-grain is achieved with Cc in mail.
But I understand not everybody knows/wants/can configure correctly
an email client. Emails are not easy for everybody, I agree.

I use GitHub as well, and I really prefer the clarity of the mail threads.
GitHub reviews tend to be line-focused, messy and not discussion-friendly.
I think contribution quality would be worst if using GitHub.

There is a mailing list discussing workflow tooling:
	https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25  9:34 Morten Brørup
2020-05-25 11:00 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 11:12 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 11:58   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 12:53     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-05-25 14:28       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 14:55         ` Wiles, Keith
2020-05-25 15:22         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 15:35           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 15:52             ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] " Maxime Coquelin
2020-05-25 15:59               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 16:04                 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-05-25 16:09                   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 16:28                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 16:57                       ` Wiles, Keith
2020-05-25 17:32                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 17:50                           ` Wiles, Keith
     [not found]                             ` <068c6367-b233-07f9-c038-4bddc4f48106@kth.se>
2020-05-26  9:33                               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-26 13:12                                 ` Wiles, Keith
2020-05-26 13:10                               ` Wiles, Keith
2020-05-25 18:44                       ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] Consider improving the DPDKcontribution processes Morten Brørup
2020-05-25 20:34                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-26  7:06                           ` Tom Barbette
2020-05-26  7:31                             ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-05-26  9:13                               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-26  9:43                         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-26 10:16                           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-26 10:33                             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-26 10:52                               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-26 12:45                                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-26 13:57                                   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-26 14:01                                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-26 10:53                               ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 16:01               ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] Consider improving the DPDK contribution processes Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 15:43           ` [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 14:55       ` Wiles, Keith
2020-05-25 12:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] " Bruce Richardson
2020-05-25 15:04     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-05-25 15:28       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-25 15:47     ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-25 16:21       ` Bruce Richardson

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