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From: 惠轶群 <huiyiqun@gmail.com>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:59:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKqreuyC8p9m_dgVpXCiT_hf=8qBA_5kZ5NABQGx0QDOiCBbww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I know it's tooo late to post proposal here, but I'd like to let my
idea known by
others.

# Summary
Although many projects hosted on github or gitlab adopt the
fork-and-merge working flow, email is still  irreplaceable for its
compatibility. However, the send-email module is old and difficult for
new users. I’d like to improve it and implement a more modern
interface for git-send-email.

# Purpose
The current implementation of send-email is based on perl and has only
a tui, it has two problems:
- user must install a ton of dependencies before submit a single patch.
- tui and parameter are both not quite friendly to new users.

# Plan
So I propose to implement following:
- Allow user to send mail via a [`mailto`
link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto). so that users could
complete the mail in their favorite email clients such as gmail, mutt,
alpine and even gmail for android through
[termux](https://termux.com/) (termux is a terminal emulator on
Android and has an API to call android system to open a link).
- 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.

Here is my proposal:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbaKJOUWjpAh0JEunqhKWiWW4SAr_-7DH_ss4WkgDGs/edit

             reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25 17:59 惠轶群 [this message]
2016-03-25 18:16 ` [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email 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
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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