Re: [edk2-announce][RFC] Collaboration Software

[stephano <stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/16/2018 2:14 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote> For people on the 
move, having bad internet (3rd world countries), email
> system is very powerful, you can download once and work offline, 
> reading/answering. You can also download the list archive and refers to 
> it offline. You also have access to all patches and can apply them 
> offline too.
> 
> Is this possible with GitHub?

I am going to guess that GitHub assumes a stable internet connection to 
participate in discussions. I'll double check this. You bring up a good 
point.

> 
> Maybe the open source alternative, GitLab, offers a such feature.
> 
> Googling "gitlab offline" I get:
> 
> "Many of our customers do not have regular Internet access and many of 
> them, being highly regulated, cannot install local copies of GitLab to 
> be able to run against the provided API. [...] The work, published as 
> the gitlab-ci-yaml_lint gem, is my attempt at a start to solving the 
> issue."
> 
> This is not what I expected, but it confirms some people have troubles 
> working with online-only services.

We are currently evaluating Gitlab to improve our code review needs. I 
will look into Gitlab as a discussion platform as well. Specifically how 
it interacts with email.

Rebecca Cran also brought up that Phabricator allows discussions to be 
interacted with via email. A quick search for Phabricator and 
"Configuring Inbound Email" it seems that one can both receive and send 
discussion messages if configured properly.

Rebecca, can you confirm this?