Re: Mailing list for CVS activity

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <address@hidden> [2004-08-11 10:21]:

> On 10-Aug-2004, Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | Does a mailing list for automatic notification of CVS activity for Octave
> | exist?
> 
> No.
> 
> | If not, it would be great to create one with public archive.
> 
> Why is it needed?

Subscribers get automatic notification when anything is committed to the CVS
repository.  This makes it easy to follow the upstream development.  Also,
the public archive is useful for looking at the changes.  We are doing this
for octave-forge and I find it very handy (See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=33111).  Of course,
YMMV.

> | Also, the messages could be in the same format as JWE uses, i.e. a
> | ChangeLog excerpt followed by a unified context patch.
> 
> I don't put anything in the cvs log when I check in changes, and
> sometimes the ChangeLog entries for a batch of changes are checked in
> separately from the source changes, which might also be checked in in
> several chunks.  So it is not clear to me when mail should be sent.

Sending mail at each CVS commit is fine.

> Also, I don't have time to do the work to set all this up.

It is just a matter of creating a new mailing list at octave.org and adding
a single line to CVSROOT/loginfo, like the following (example taken from the
octave-forge repository):

^octave  /cvsroot/sitedocs/CVSROOT/cvstools/syncmail -u %{sVv} address@hidden

-- 
Rafael