Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

Posted Nov 25, 2023 20:08 UTC (Sat) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
In reply to: Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout by karim
Parent article: Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

> One of the things that doesn't seem to have been mentioned in this discussion is how off-putting the email format is for the non-initiated.

Not to mention the frustration of different clients - I found that using Fastmail, I had to run dos2unix on attachments to make a patch merge-able. Not the end of the world, but one more hazard to deal with.

SourceHut has an interesting patch UI layered on top of email, coupled with the "hut" command line tool that allows patches to be merged directly from the message list id. Even this misses the conversational element of Pull Requests as implemented by Github, Gitea etc.

The ForgeJo (fork of Gitea used at Codeberg) folks are trying to create a forge-neutral format for messages like Pull Requests etc, which would alleviate concerns about being locked in to a particular forge...being JSON, these messages would at least amenable to modern web UIs.