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A new free-software forge: sr.ht

A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 10, 2019 9:39 UTC (Thu) by grawity (subscriber, #80596)
In reply to: A new free-software forge: sr.ht by Beolach
Parent article: A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Additionally, a matter of experience influencing how "easy" something seems to be.

I'd agree that setting up `git send-email` is not very difficult at all – point it at the SMTP server and go. (Once you know that you need to use `git send-email` and not e.g. Thunderbird, that is.) But setting up a suitable mail client for receiving patches is a bit more of a hassle – it seems like you have to either use Mutt or Emacs, basically.

I really hope that OP didn't mean to say that setting up a mail server is easy; I've set up mine twice, and even though I enjoyed the process, I wouldn't call it any easier than e.g. setting up Kerberos or BGP: it seems to work at first, but there are pitfalls everywhere you go, your mail gets dropped for reasons you can't control, and if you don't faithfully follow the correct tutorial word-by-word, it'll take weeks if not months to work the kinks out.


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A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 25, 2019 14:57 UTC (Fri) by aigarius (subscriber, #7329) [Link]

Locations also differ. Try setting up git send-email when your ISP simply blocks all incoming and outgoing connections to all known email ports. For security. And the selection of alternative ISPs is limited or even non-existent. Email is a really complex system to set up on your own, so most people just use GMail or something similar, so you are effectively trading a WebUI that is optimized for code review for a WebUI that is not.


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