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Originally posted by wagaf View Post
Using the git protocol to exchange commits and branches is much more powerful than sending emails. And IMHO mailing lists are completely obsolete as a communication tool in general. The more they wait to replace the current system, the more "organisational debt" will accumulate and progressively hinder the project.
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Originally posted by cl333r View Post
Yeah, though youtube is a big usage case. I think it didn't take off because there were (desktop) consumer GPUs with HEVC support for much earlier than VP9.
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> full-self driving technology
I didn't realise they were still making that false claim. The most recent report (covered on https://register.co.uk) shows it's still just absolutely hilarious. (if not for the fact that it's out there killing people already).
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Originally posted by cl333r View Postyoutube is a big usage case. I think it didn't take off because there were (desktop) consumer GPUs with HEVC support for much earlier than VP9.
VP9 is worse almost across the board, only winning on licensing costs - which for G are likely zero, but at a nominal 20% show that there was just no way at all to make it work, even with VP9 being another standard that G would own.
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Originally posted by wagaf View PostImpressive but obsolete...
Sometimes it's time to let go.
- email is the notification mechanism of choice anyway, why not also send all information within it?
- you can search emails much more easily than any of the mentioned tools(again, because of the possibility of "build your own", as the files can all be downloaded locally)
- offline review writing and sending in batches (at work we use github, the number of times it just lost all my comments because I did them on a train with no connection...)
- history - no smarts, only files means that preserving review history is easy. I have never seen review history preserved across any tool migration (gitlab -> github). Doesn't mean it can't be done, and one can argue that never having migrated from email, this hasn't been tested either.
- No need for a user to sign up, meaning theoretically that one off pseudonymous/anonymous patches are easily possible (security of this is a different topic)
- Everything is still possible offline, including search.
Where this falls flat on its face is any kind of automation such as required builds etc...
And the work required from each contributor to set up his environment isn't negligible either.
Using the git protocol to exchange commits and branches is much more powerful than sending emails.
The email flow is used for code review. A completely different use case, for which no VCS has ever been built, because it doesn't belong there.
Email, github or gitlab, doesn't matter, all is a layer (or multiple) above git.
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