Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 12, 2020 14:25 UTC (Wed) by spwhitton (subscriber, #71678)
In reply to: Better tools for kernel developers by Conan_Kudo
Parent article: Better tools for kernel developers

Sourcehut also has this feature.

Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 12, 2020 14:39 UTC (Wed) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240) [Link] (1 responses)

The problem with Sourcehut is that it provides no alternative workflow for submitting changes. It re-enforces the email-based workflow that myself and many others here have said is not workable.

Sourcehut itself does improve things from the "dumb" email model (such as basically integrating Patchwork's functionality), but itself does not provide any reasonable workflow improvements.

Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 12, 2020 21:29 UTC (Wed) by milesrout (subscriber, #126894) [Link]

What you are saying about the email-based workflow that git was designed from the start to be used with is simply, factually, objectively wrong. Saying that it "isn't workable" isn't just incorrect, it's ignorant.

However if you put even the most basic research into sourcehut you'd know that the major goal of the website is to build online web-based contribution tools that use the "unworkable" email workflow underneath.