version: extension info in verbose mode (issue4209) (issue 105040046 by techtonik at gmail.com)

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 01:20 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> The previous email was from Rietveld just to show an example of alternative
> review process. I've uploaded all change history incrementally.

We're aware that such tools exists, and it's not an accident that we're
not using them after 9 years. But I've gone ahead and looked at Rietveld
again and it's served to reaffirm my position.

If I need to leave my mail client to review or apply your patch, it's a
complete absolute 100% non-starter. Things that make my workflow slower
are simply not viable.

Secondly, if reviews of your patch don't show up in the inboxes of _all
other reviewers and contributors_ such that everyone can at least
potentially read them and avoid making the same mistakes, then I'm going
to end up repeating myself a lot more. I hate repeating myself; I hate
web review tools.

There's a lot of other stuff that I find awful about Rietveld, but the
big one is "it's not email". Until a "web" review tool shows up that is
indistinguishable from the current workflow on my end, I'm just not
interested.

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