Re: [GSoC] A small survey + My Git Blog, week 10

On 26/07/21 23:56, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

Hi Atharva and Shourya,
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Thunderbird is more like what I am looking for, which has a convenient
GUI with loaded batteries, while still being more configurable than Apple
Mail and actually handling threading properly. This is what I
currently use,
but my laptop is unhappy with it, as it eats up around 40-50% of the CPU
usage in the background. It also eats up more battery, almost as much as
my browser. This is apparently a bug that’s been unresolved for many
years
now. Git developers reading this: if you have personal recommendations
for something that is easy to use but also lightweight, please do let
me know! (and it needs to work on macOS)

That's bad. After a long time of switching, Thunderbird is what worked for
me too (after some config tweaks, of course). Evolution was close but it
had some bugs with the composition window. Otherwise Evolution was good,
light-weight and is well suited for plain-text emails. But looks like
it only works for Unix-like distributions[1]. So, its not an option for
you.

I don't own a Mac and haven't used one for personal use. So, I don't
have great recommendations. Anyways, light-weight reminds me of mutt[2].
But its likely one of the non-GUI clients that might also need a bit of
configuring.

In case you could consider alternative solutions for filtering e-mail,
there's the filtering option of Gmail[3] which could help. You could
filter emails based on certain criteria and send them to specific
folders[4] which could help you with managing emails to an extent.
I heavily rely on this feature to keep my Inbox clutter-free to
an extent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#General

[2]: http://www.mutt.org/

[3]: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en

[4]:
https://www.gtricks.com/gmail/organize-gmail-by-sending-emails-directly-to-a-folder-label/

Thanks for the information. I do use the filtering of Gmail, but I
remember back when I used a non-GUI client I had all sorts issues with
mapping the newly made Gmail directories with folders on my system. I
believe you have to configure one each time, which is fine when you
don't have to do it too, often but I had given up after the third time.

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I just use a straightforward { editor + MUA + git } stack and go with
the flow!

For me it has mostly been this but with some help from tools. Many
people have found GitGitGadget[5] useful for sending patches to mailing
list based workflow from a GitHub PR like interface (Thanks to Dscho!)
You could've heard of it before but you could give it a try and
see if it helps improve things for you :-)

I appreciate the utility of GitGitGadget, and I thought I'd end up using
that when contributing, but I found email to be simpler and more
intuitive (at the time, it felt less intimidating to use).

I've heard there's git send-series[6] which says that it helps
with managing patch series. I haven't used it myself, though.

These are some tools that come to mind. I believe others could
likely provide better insights.

[5]: https://gitgitgadget.github.io/

[6]: https://github.com/felipec/git-send-series

Thanks, I'll check these out.