Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mar 27, 2016, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20160327220002.GA29057@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzitm2zkj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> 惠轶群 <huiyiqun@gmail.com> writes:
> > - Build a simple email client (maybe a web components based web app or
> > wxwidgets based GUI client, they are both cross-platform) which is
> > easy to use for sending patch without disrupting the mailbox format.
> 
> I suspect it would yield a better result if the plan were to update
> a popular email client and make it possible to tell it to read an
> existing text file (i.e. mbox) without corrupting its contents.
> People do not have to learn a new mail client if done that way.

Another bigger problem is people rely heavily on webmail UIs nowadays instead of running any local mail clients :<

While Gmail provides SMTP access, it was (last I was told) incompatible with two-factor auth; so I've encountered users unable to send patches with their normal 2FA-enabled accounts.

Maybe git hackers at Google have enough pull to lobby Gmail's web interface to make it easier to send plain-text patches; but I would love more to see users running local mail clients and even running their own SMTP servers.

> That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-)

Completely agreed; email is critical to decentralized development; but I don't believe decentralization is in the best interests of any large and powerful corporation.

IMHO, what we need is a SoIS: Summer of Independent Sysadmins :>