1139: Email submissions of requests
- WontFix
- Review Board
| james%loved************@gtempacc******** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.) | |
| Oct. 9, 2009 | |
| 1210, 1768 |
It'd be great if ReviewBoard allowed requests to be submitted via email - email to address and have RB pick it up, parse it and create a request.
We've had a lot of discussion on this and decided against it. I'll briefly go over the reasons why. 1) We have no control over the structure of the e-mails we get. This means that users may change the quoting of what's being replied to and suddenly we don't know where the comment belongs on the review. They may insert in the middle of a reply, or at the top of the e-mail, or at the bottom. Suddenly structure falls apart and reviews become far less useful for those using Review Board. 2) We now use HTML e-mails in 1.1, and these are less reply-friendly. 3) It's a lot to maintain and fix with only a relatively small number of users. The work is disproportionate to the benefit of the feature. 4) We have no control over the encoding. We expect UTF-8 in Review Board, but we can get e-mails in any encoding, and this can break things.
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