[Kde-scm-interest] meeting summary

[Esben Mose Hansen]

On Thursday 10 December 2009 19:24:13 Chani wrote:
> gitorious currently doesn't allow you to choose what mail you receive. 
> everyone in the kde-developers group was getting amarok's merge request
>  email,  which was kinda annoying, especially with other projects talking
>  about moving to git before such issues are resolved.
> 
> johan is going to implement a proper solution, but we don't know when, and
>  in  the meantime amarok people refused to consider not sending mail to the
>  kde- developers group, so ossi went behind their back and changed it so
>  that the mail went to an amarok-developers group, scoffing at people's
>  requests to have a discussion first.
> 
> the reason ossi's change can only be temporary is that gitorious users
>  (ie,  kde developers) still don't have control over what email they get;
>  the only way to join or leave a group right now is to find the admin of
>  that group and ask him/her to do it for you.
> 

This merge request mail thing is new, right? So if it is blocking our 
migration to git, can't we just disable it altogether until the solution to 
this is worked out? 

The problem doesn't sound unsolvable; just a matter of some web-interface, and 
some permission bits for users. Or similar. And we still have reviewboard, so 
it's not like there is no alternative. Or if all else fail, git works fine with 
mailinglists and git-send-email --- that's e.g. how libgit2 works, and I have 
no trouble with this workflow.

I just don't see the problem, really. So, given that I, like most men, think I 
am smarter-than-average, at least half the people in here can't see it either. 
So what are we missing? 

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Kind regards, Esben