OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract Git classes from git-svn (1/10))

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2012, 05:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20120725055422.GB4503@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <500F860E.5010909@pobox.com>

Michael G Schwern wrote:

> And again, it *does not have to be zero sum*.  It doesn't have to be email VS
> GUI.  You can have your cake and eat it too.

I assume you're talking about web-based interfaces that have gateways to email, that produce inboxes like this:

 24 Jul 02:46	GitHub	[github] msysgit/msysgit was forked by peters
 23 Jul 10:27	GitHub	[msysgit/git] ce8ebc: vcs-svn: rename check_o
 23 Jul 10:01	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git
 23 Jul 09:50	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git
 23 Jul 09:33	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git
 23 Jul 09:39	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 24 (Long fi
 23 Jul 09:31	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git
 23 Jul 09:30	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 24 (Long fi
 22 Jul 23:57	GitHub	[github] Comment created on issue 44 (new git

I call that pretending to have my cake, rather than having it. :)

Maybe some day someone will prove me wrong and make a nice web-based tool that I don't even need to know about that mines project mailing lists. If I have to tweak my subject lines a little to help it out, that's fine with me. I think patchwork is supposed to work this way.

But unless we're talking about splitting the mailing list into a bunch of mini mailing lists (like some bug trackers do), it doesn't change anything fundamental, so I'm not sure why we're discussing this.

Ciao, Jonathan