Forum OpenACS Development: openacs-cvs-list@openacs.org

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Posted by Branimir Dolicki on
How do I subscribe to mailto:openacs-cvs-list@openacs.org?  Thanks.
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Posted by C. R. Oldham on
It will really work better if you subscribe to the RSS feed with an RSS reader.

If you don't have an RSS reader, but use an IMAP client for your email, I recommend http://rss.blogstreet.com.  It presents RSS feeds using an IMAP server, so it just looks like a separate email account to you.  Sometimes they are a little flaky, but other than that it's a great free service.

The URL for the feed is http://xarg.net/tools/cvs/rss/

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
I can only second that. Do yourself a favour and use RSS. I got swamped with bug and cvs emails. Having them available via RSS was a relief. No I only need forums to come as RSS feeds as well, or shall I say notifications?
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Posted by Branimir Dolicki on
Does it mean that the mailing list I can subscribe to doesn't really exist?  I'm not into RSS readers (yet) but I am heavily using procmail to sort all my mail into IMAP-accessible folders.  So the mailing list solution would be much better for me.
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Posted by Jeff Davis on
It's a qmail .alias file. I can add you by hand if you like (or if you want to set up a read-only mailing list for it that would be fine too). There is a tcl script to insert into a forum but it does not do notifications so it's not optimal.
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Posted by Branimir Dolicki on
Great idea Jeff!

I've set up a list at willfork.com.  So if you forward all
the traffic to mailto:openacs-cvs-list@willfork.com everybody who
bothers to register here will get it as well:

http://willfork.com/mailman/listinfo/openacs-cvs-list

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Posted by Mark Aufflick on
The xml chokes my favourite OSX dockling rss reader... I'll try to find what the problem is (it's probably with my software).
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Posted by Jeff Davis on
Branimir, I set up the forward to go to the willfork address. next commit let me know if it worked.

Mark, the feed validates as rss 1.0, and I have not had trouble with netnewswire. Now that rss 2.0 is in rss support maybe I will add that as well, I expect that would fix any remaining problems.

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Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on
Jeff,

could you make the CVS RSS code available in contrib perhaps? Would be useful for other projects as well.

/Bart

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Posted by Branimir Dolicki on
Yes, it is working.  Thanks...

... but now that I've seen those emails I realized that this mechanism doesn't include diffs.

So, the next piece of work I'd like to volonteer is to enable sending of diffs in the body of the email via the CVSROOT/loginfo mechanism.  These Python scripts from our friends at Zope.org have been working for us very well for years: http://dev.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/CVSAddons

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Posted by Timo Hentschel on
I can only second Branimirs request since the real information that you need is to see whether anything important (e.g. the interface) has been changed. In the past this worked very well for us.