Comment by arp242

10 months ago

People forget things etc.

Should probably have just asked again, or sent a small one-line patch. It's "mention something on Slack" vs "creating a GitHub issue/PR"

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lazyasciiart  10 months ago

Then you get stories like Greg in the linked mail thread, who emailed to check after not hearing anything and got told that now he'd been annoying and it would never be done.

  • account42  10 months ago

    A story about a 17000 line patch with seemingly no discussion before dumping it on the kernel maintainers. Understandable that noone felt like reviewing it.

samus  10 months ago

Which sounds inefficient and exactly the sort of problem that doesn't happen with a Github issue/PR.

  • BlueTemplar  10 months ago

    But Github, being a platform, is a nonstarter.

    Have there been any recent popular developments on a similar workflow that is as robust as e-mail ?

  • arp242  10 months ago

    > exactly the sort of problem that doesn't happen with a Github issue/PR

    What? PRs or issues being forgotten happens all the time, especially for large projects.

    • samus  10 months ago

      It would still be easier to track the progress (or lack thereof) with a proper ticketing system.