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> merely because the tools are primitive and unpolished Sorry, but I believe this is the evidence that it's the abstractions behind these tools being primitive
by rfoo 6y ago
> merely because the tools are primitive and unpolished
Sorry, but I believe this is the evidence that it's the abstractions behind these tools being primitive and these tools can't be polished, putting more efforts on an impossible task does not help.
OT but I guess after Black Lives Matter we should have Noob Lives Matter.
- sreevisakh 6y agoSMTP is just a protocol to exchange information. It's no more primitive than the mechanisms that power fork-PR workflow. What makes it impossible for a client to display issue threads and patches like Github does? What makes it impossible to import patches directly from client into a git repository? What makes it impossible to design a simple utility to 'push' a git branch as a set of patches? If the evidence for that is the current state of affairs, I consider it simply as a result of no one having an incentive to invest in a non-centralized workflow - that's not a proof of it being unviable. Making it noob-friendly takes work that nobody has yet put in.