[Savannah-hackers] [ 100348 ] syncmail not working..

[nobody]

Support Request #100348, was updated on 2002-Jan-24 14:26
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Category: CVS
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: syncmail not working..

By: villate
Date: 2002-Jan-30 13:39

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In the case of your project (jilc) syncmail did not work 
because you forgot to add a line in CVSROOT/checkoutlist 
to tell the cvs server to keep a checked out copy of 
syncmail. Without that, you enede up with a file 
syncmail,v (cvs archive) but no syncmail.

When I say that the method described in the documentation 
doesn't work, I'm referring to the fact that it is not a 
good idea that every maintainer keeps his own copy of 
syncmail in the project's CVSROOT. We will end up with 
different versions and if an update is required in 
Savannah, every maintainer would have to do the update.

The method we use with log_accum is that we keep a central 
copy (/usr/local/bin/log_accum) that all projects will 
use. If it has to be modified, the source in 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/savannah/savannah/cvsadmin/
is edited, and /usr/local/bin/log_accum will be 
automatically updated.

Besides, syncmail has currently a licensing problem (we 
haven't found out who is the owner of the copyright and 
what the copying and modification terms are).

Regarding your offer to help, there are several things you 
can help us with; the best way to start is to take a look 
at the current open tasks in project savannah 
(http://savannah.gnu.org/pm/?group_id=11). If you find one 
you can help us with, write to address@hidden 
and we will give you any information and accesss you might 
need. Or if you can think of something else that is not 
among the current tasks, let us know. If you have the 
patience to go through the lists archives 
(http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=11), you can also 
find a lot of information about what needs to be done.



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By: mastergaurav
Date: 2002-Jan-30 12:45

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Hello Guillaume,
 I can understand your position. I was quite upset when I 
got no initial replies.

Thanks villate,
 I have been able to setup using the "commitinfo" 
and "log_accum" combination. I was wondering as to what is 
the problem with syncmail. Is python not installed? Ah, 
that cannot be since webcvs works pretty fine.
 Or the "mail" program is not in its default location?


 Anyway, I would be happy to volunteer to help, though at 
present I don't have much experience on the other side - 
the admin side of the sf / savannah.
 Let me know do I need to do to be a part of the team.

Cheers,
Master Gaurav

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