From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: 惠轶群 <huiyiqun@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:00:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160327220002.GA29057@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzitm2zkj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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 :>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-27 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 17:59 [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email 惠轶群
2016-03-25 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-26 2:13 ` 惠轶群
2016-03-26 6:18 ` Pranit Bauva
2016-03-26 9:52 ` 惠轶群
2016-03-26 10:18 ` 惠轶群
2016-03-26 10:21 ` 惠轶群
2016-03-28 16:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-03-29 4:17 ` 惠轶群
2016-03-29 23:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-03-30 12:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-03-27 22:00 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-03-27 23:31 ` Javier Domingo Cansino
2016-03-28 13:00 ` 惠轶群
2016-04-05 0:03 ` Eric Wong
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