contribution process

[Roman Neuhauser]

# cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org / 2014-07-02 15:38:26 -0400:
> On 02/07/2014 3:26 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> >> I think you could pretty easily generate mailing list traffic from
> >> pull requests, but not the other way around (as you seem to be
> >> asking).
> >
> > That's an interesting-ish option. Would we also be able to get the
> > reviews posted back to the ML so that the list remains the sole
> > source of truth about what's going on?
> 
> I believe Github does something similar. Anytime someone posts a comment 
> in Github, you get a copy by email. Anyone replies to that email get 
> posted as comments in the online system. Would this work for you?

is this a suggestion to stop selfhosting mercurial?  github only does
git, no?  anyway, while i'm here...

i can't speak for Augie, but github's approach to email is too cavalier.

* you don't receive emails from your own comments posted in the web ui
* the web ui consumes a poorly documented dialect of markdown with focus
  on emoticons whose ascii counterparts may be baffling, while email
  input is not parsed as markdown at all

you can attach comments to commits, to diff hunks, to individual lines
(the latter two only through the web ui), but they disappear from the
web ui when the thing they're attached to disappears (rebase).

bitbucket's mail output is outrageous: all comments for a single issue
generate emails with the same Message-Id header.  i don't know how PR
emails behave, my guess is the same.

tldr: IMO, github is barely bearable, bitbucket not even that

-- 
roman