Gitlab experiment status

[Zebediah Figura]

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?

> 
> Then I personally also don't think that the mailing list bridge is doing 
> a great job, and if we decide to use Gitlab as the primary platform I'd 
> also vote for using a different mailing list for the bridge, for people 
> willing to stick to it. (*)
> 
> (*) Actually, if we decide to adopt Gitlab as the primary development 
> platform, I think it'd be better if reviews were done on Gitlab 
> entirely, if we cannot find a way to better format mail replies, they 
> are hardly readable at the moment. Even replying to Gitlab builtin mail 
> notifications does a better job.

I'd really like to stress my opposition to this. Gitlab's UI is 
horrible, and so are the default mail notifications. I don't intend to 
use either to review.