Re: Pain points in Git's patch flow

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Apr 19, 2021, 13:35 UTC
Message-ID: <YH2HLtZY/KjrYrng@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20210419025754.GA26065@dcvr>

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:57:54AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

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> >   But for folks who don't have a dev environment ready at hand (new
> >   comers, during travel with only phone access), it would be nice to
> >   have a way to run tests without a dev environment.
> 
> Fwiw, the GCC Farm project gives ssh accounts for all free
> software contributors, not just gcc hackers: https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net
> Perhaps there's other similar services, too.
> 
> Slow down and enjoy travel :)  There's very little in free
> software urgent enough to require constant attention.  Email is
> well-suited for asynchronous work, and nobody should expect
> instant replies.  The always-on nature of the modern Internet
> and smartphones increases stress and dangerous situations; so I
> hope free software hackers aren't contributing to that.

FWIW, I find the disconnected, e-mail based workflow using a command-line interface to be *ideal* for working while travelling on an airplane. I'm mostly disconnected from the internet, because the airplane wifi is so slow that you *really* don't want to use a web-based interface, but I can use offlineimap to sync my e-mail onto my laptop, and using the command-line interface and the lack of distractions is great since you really can't surf the web on the gogoonline's pathetically slow 'net access.

This also means I have an excuse to work on open source projects which are using e-mail and off-line git, as opposed to $WORK which mandates the use of gerrit. :-)

(All of the above applies pre-pandemic, of course. I've been working from home and not travelling for the past year+, sigh.)

     	      	  	     	     	  - Ted

P.S. Also, while working on the road, I find that web-based interfaces are much more tolerable when I'm at my desk with a 40" screen. When I'm using a 13" laptop screen, I much prefer CLI interfaces. YMMV, of course.