From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:54:23 GMT Subject: OT: mail-based interfaces and web-based interfaces (Re: Extract Git classes from git-svn (1/10)) 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