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Why does email not solve your problem? It allows offline work, you can store the reviews on your computer, you can even commit it to git if you want. Also chec
by erikb 10y ago
Why does email not solve your problem? It allows offline work, you can store the reviews on your computer, you can even commit it to git if you want.
Also check out emacs' org-mode for an alternative approach.
And last but not least, does it just sound like you value the review higher than the code? Why should it be more than a text file like any other? Meaning is something we add to the text. A tool with a specific goal like git shouldn't enhance a meaning to an object type.
- exDM69 10y agoThe review comments still live outside of the repo, in an unformatted ad-hoc format that's not easy to write a nice UI for. Ideally, I should be able to add review comments in a graphical diff viewer or web front-end and every dev should be able to choose the tools they prefer. Email workflow would solve the connectivity issues, but the reviews, issues etc are not stored for posterity along with the code. Reviews don't need to be much more than text, but they need some metadata to refer to files/revisions/lines. Basically this could be solved with some conventions on top of text files that machines could understand. What I'm after is something like Fossil, where all the project management can be done offline and in a structured way.
- erikb 10y agoFossil looks quite interesting. Thanks for the reference. https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts...