Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:56:39AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > The only thing clunky about this particular aspect of the workflow
> > described is the fact that the guix community (maintainers?) have
> > decided on a one patch per mail policy with a cover letter, rather than
> > submitting the patches as attachments in the initial mail.
> 
> You are right.  When I started contributing I actually did attach all
> patches in one email.  I wonder why we stopped doing that.

I believe some found it easier to pipe multiple emails to git am than to
pipe attachments. From mutt there's no difference for me.

> I’ll say that many of my gripes with (the GNU instance of) Debbugs are
> due to the fact that we can’t customize it to better suit our needs — it
> is a shared resource with a complicated maintenance story.  So all
> changes went into Mumi as crude workarounds.  I think this is a dead end
> and we’d be better off leaving the shared GNU instance of Debbugs
> behind.

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