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[–] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To be honest, I'm starting to drink the Sourcehut coolaid here. We have a distributed method of interacting with repositories: Email.

Don't get me wrong, the current user experience of email-based patches and discussion isn't great because it's too easy to send a badly formatted patch. But if we invested time in making email patches easier to use (e.g. sending them through a web ui for people who prefer github style PRs) then we could skip all the architectural pains of solutions like forgefed.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know if email is a good solution. Having contributed to the linux kernel ( in 2010ish ) may have distorted my perception of the gitmail workflow but it doesn't seems very accesible and i can't possibly see a change allowing this to be usable by semi-technical users.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    The change would be using Gitmail as the plumbing, and normalising the creation of user-friendly porcelain on top.

    E.g. suppose there is a repo foo/bar hosted by a forgejo instance at myinstance.org/foo/bar. Sending an email to foo.bar@myinstance.org (or similar) could automatically create a PR and, conversely, opening a PR could send a patch series to the foo/bar mailing list.

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