From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
Cc: Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,
overseers@gcc.gnu.org,
"Frank Ch. Eigler via Gcc" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>,
Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Not usable email content encoding
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:17:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200319001721.GS22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200318223308.GJ112952@elastic.org>
Hi!
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:33:08PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > [...] We need to think about setting up easier ways for people to
> > submit patches, rather than trying to fix all of the MUAs and MTAs
> > in the world.
>
> Another related point. We are comingling email as a communication
> medium AND a commit transport medium. For the former, as in patch
> review / RFC, one may not require a form of the patch that is finally
> committable to master, so the exact From: etc. may not matter.
But OTOH, it is extremely valuable to review the commit message at the
same time as the patch. Which we now *can*, for contributors who follow
a more "git-like" workflow.
> For the latter, attachments are more bullet-proof.
Disregarding binary attachments, which are unworkable with many tools
(and which are disallowed on gcc-patches for that reason), is this
really true? Do some MUAs (or MTAs) mess up only the first body part
they encounter? Or what?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-19 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-16 13:45 Martin Liška
2020-03-16 13:47 ` Richard Earnshaw
2020-03-16 13:52 ` Martin Liška
2020-03-16 13:51 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-16 13:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-16 13:54 ` Alexander Monakov
2020-03-16 14:11 ` Martin Liška
2020-03-16 14:18 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-17 19:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-17 19:51 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-17 21:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-18 10:38 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-18 11:01 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 11:39 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-18 14:19 ` Michael Matz
2020-03-18 14:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 15:15 ` Bernd Schmidt
2020-03-18 16:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 16:42 ` Michael Matz
2020-03-18 17:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-18 21:52 ` Jim Wilson
2020-03-18 22:29 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-18 22:34 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-18 22:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-19 3:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-19 3:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-18 22:45 ` Joseph Myers
2020-03-18 23:02 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-19 13:05 ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-19 13:26 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-19 13:41 ` Richard Biener
2020-03-19 13:58 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-19 18:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 0:54 ` Tamar Christina
2020-04-23 5:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-23 7:34 ` Richard Biener
2020-04-23 9:55 ` Tamar Christina
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdShSXwc4K7ar9HWgHu12tDQe-s2LifdvmVp8VytwYV-ew@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-23 8:39 ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-04-23 15:32 ` Jeff Law
2020-04-23 11:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdTHsZWO9vuycKm22dDbSGSfzcrKbzEpb6vNdb-zXCiKjQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-23 12:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 15:33 ` Jeff Law
2020-04-23 16:57 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-23 20:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 20:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 21:14 ` Tom Tromey
2020-04-24 15:48 ` Thomas Koenig
2020-04-24 17:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-01 15:51 ` Jeff Law
2020-05-02 12:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-19 18:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-18 22:33 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-19 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-03-19 0:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-06 20:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 21:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-06 21:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdTqJEM90d9+nNWrAa_zZrQQha79oMbnbVsRt_2Zd90PdA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-07 9:53 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-08 12:38 ` Mark Wielaard
2020-04-08 13:50 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-08 21:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-13 19:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-13 22:53 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-14 21:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-14 21:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-15 2:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 15:13 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-07 15:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-07 15:56 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-07 16:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 17:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-09 18:19 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-07 16:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 16:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 23:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-21 22:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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