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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Erroneous CVS commit report
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Sylvain Beucler |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Erroneous CVS commit report |
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Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:09:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:48:06AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think it is a bug in commit_prep+log_accum, basically it seems it
> doesn't remove its temporary files after the notification. Although it
> uses a random number as a suffix, sometimes the random number matches
> an old one and generates an unappropriate diff.
>
> You may consider to ask Corvus or Ward (I think Corvus worked on
> tuning commit_prep+log_accum to Savannah, and Ward to the way it sends
> mail) to fix the issue,
>
> If you find a bug in the software on Savannah, can you please make a
> practice of taking responsibility to get it fixed? That's part of
> what it means to operate an activity; it includes overseeing the
> repair of any problems.
>
> Thus, having debugged it to a problem that needs a sysadmin,
> you should take the next step of reporting it to the sysadmin,
> and verifying that it does get fixed.
>
> Would you please do that now, and do likewise in the future?
> In the future, any time there is a bug that only the sysadmins
> can fix, please tell them right away.
>
> Ok?
>
> If you ask the sysadmins but they don't respond, that's a different
> kind of situation. First you should try telling them again. If they
> still don't respond, you should tell me, so that I can tell them to
> pay attention. But this issue hasn't reached that stage yet. This is
> at the stage where you should simply send a bug report to sysadmin and
> ask them to fix it.
(removed cvs-hackers from cc:)
Ok, no problem. By the way, Bala told me he has some time now, so he
may want to fix this as well as the branch-filtered notifications. If
he doesn't, I will ask the sysadmins.
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Sylvain