Gitlab experiment status

[Alex Henrie]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 8:28 AM Gabriel Ivăncescu
<gabrielopcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/06/2022 02:50, Alex Henrie wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:03 PM Zebediah Figura
> > <zfigura at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 5/27/22 10:46, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> >>> On 5/27/22 17:30, Zebediah Figura (she/her) wrote:
> >>>> On 5/27/22 07:34, Jacek Caban wrote:
> >>>>> * I think that a mailing list dominated by a bot does not give an
> >>>>> impression welcoming for general discussion. If we're moving forward
> >>>>> with this, I think we should move Gitlab bridge to a separated
> >>>>> mailing list. We had wine-patches in the past (although in this case
> >>>>> it would contain review comments as well).
> >>>>
> >>>> If our intent is to switch to gitlab because mailing lists are too
> >>>> difficult for people to work with, then it seems we shouldn't have any
> >>>> discussion at all take place on a mailing list, otherwise it'll be
> >>>> missed by the people who are only using gitlab. Not that I know of a
> >>>> better way to have such discussion...
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Imho the mailing list still makes sense, for general Wine development
> >>> discussion, though the volume may be much smaller than what we currently
> >>> have.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we don't currently have many discussion either because the mailing
> >>> list is felt more as a place for patches, and that discussions are
> >>> believed to happen elsewhere, or because discussions go more often
> >>> unnoticed under the volume of patches.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I've seen this kind of thought floated several times, and I'm not sure I
> >> understand the reasoning. What kind of discussions or replies are you
> >> expecting to see that don't currently happen?
> >
> > This thread itself is an example: I didn't see it until today. GitLab
> > allows me to subscribe to the patch discussions that I care about
> > rather than getting the deafening torrent of every single message. So,
> > for me, resurrecting the wine-patches list as the GitLab bridge while
> > leaving process and architecture discussion on wine-devel would be a
> > welcome change. Mailing lists also aren't very friendly when a
> > newcomer wants to reply to a message that was sent before they were
> > subscribed to the list, but GitLab allows newcomers to jump right in.
> >
> > -Alex
> >
>
> FWIW, I see you use gmail, so you can just use a filter to send all the
> mails coming to this list that have [PATCH] in Subject line to a
> different tag. Which is the same as having two different mailing lists
> and sending them to different tags (or even remove the mails with
> [PATCH] which is akin to not subscribing to wine-patches).

Thanks for the tip. I have altered my filter for wine-devel to
separate mail that includes "patch" in the subject line from mail that
does not. However, it's still not ideal because Gmail ignores brackets
in the search keyword, and there's no way to make the search
case-sensitive either. Perhaps those are good reasons to switch to a
different email client or provider, but even so, I don't want to have
to write a new filter every time I want to subscribe to a particular
patch thread.

-Alex