From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Wong Subject: Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:00:02 +0000 Message-ID: <20160327220002.GA29057@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?utf-8?B?5oOg6L22576k?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 28 00:00:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akIjH-0001ch-88 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752529AbcC0WAF convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:00:05 -0400 Received: from dcvr.yhbt.net ([64.71.152.64]:46274 "EHLO dcvr.yhbt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752238AbcC0WAE (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:00:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FCC633805; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > =E6=83=A0=E8=BD=B6=E7=BE=A4 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= =2E >=20 > 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 :>