Re: [Caml-list] Doing compiler patch review with a dedicated mailing-list

[Thomas Refis <thomas.refis@gmail.com>]

2014/1/13 Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Bünzli
> <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
>> It's not only easy to browse, it's *great* to browse: all the web-based mailing list archives I interact with are not even able to follow a thread running across two month. I really feel we're in 2014.
>
> This is a bit too snarky for me to guess what you want.

I'd have thought that part was pretty obvious. If the discussion
starts on the 28th of a month, and is continued the next month. The
"sympa" interface gives you no easy way to follow the thread. You need
to "select" the second month, and find the thread again.

> I'm already doing a few reviews on mantis, and occasionally uses the
> github in-patch-commenting interface when people send a link to a
> github-hosted patch (eg. http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6274
> ).

Since we're talking about it: I was a bit confused with that review.
Although *I* find the github interface nicer than mantis and the "in
patch comments" really useful, I didn't know whether I should answer
your comments on github or on mantis, and people on mantis might not
see the comments you did.
So I'm not sure that's really a good approach. (But of course that
particular patch was about ocamldoc, which no one really cares about,
so I guess that's ok)

Thomas.