Pulling GitHub into the kernel process

Posted Jun 24, 2021 1:38 UTC (Thu) by ploxiln (subscriber, #58395)
Parent article: Pulling GitHub into the kernel process

> Similarly, Drew DeVault has been working on the reverse direction, from a mailing list to a project forge, as well.

I think this misunderstands Drew DeVault's project, SourceHut aka sr.ht, somewhat. I think it actually goes both directions - it has an optional web interface which helps to generate emails, and encourages using email to review and merge patches.

https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/send-email.md
https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/#sending-patches-upstream

Pulling GitHub into the kernel process

Posted Jun 24, 2021 15:41 UTC (Thu) by ddevault (subscriber, #99589) [Link]

Not exactly. We have a web UI for preparing patches which is definitely helpful for incorporating people into the email workflow. The tool I mentioned in this email thread is different: we wrote a little web service which bidirectionally syncs emails sent to a mailing list with a gitlab merge request. The former, which you were referring to, is not related to any github or github-style forges; while the latter, is.