Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: classpath: GIF files

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Please accept my apologies. What I thought to be a good idea
apparently turned out to be very unpleasant to you. I fixed the script
to avoid troubles in the future. Could you please tell me if the sample
mail below is acceptable ? If not could you suggest a way to improve it ? 

        - the To: shows all recipients
        - a mailing list would be better but we have no way to figure
          out which mailing list is appropriate, in an automated way.
          We could research & track each project, asking developers for
          the relevant mailing list. But that would be so time consuming
          that no volunteer will do it. If sending to all developpers 
          in this way is not acceptable, I think we don't have a better
          solution than to just drop the whole idea.
        - added explanations on why and by who the mail was sent

        Thanks for your help and understanding,

        Cheers,

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Subject: thotbook: GIF files
To: address@hidden,address@hidden
  
    Hi,
  
    Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
thotbook hosted on the GNU machines ?
  
    For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
(see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).

  
    This mail was created by a script on the Savannah machine and
run manually by one of the address@hidden It was sent
to all members of thotbook because we have no automated way to
figure out what is the relevant mailing list and who, among the
existing developers, is taking care of these issues at present.

    The home page of your project is
      http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/thotbook/

    You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
      http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz

    Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
the sources of thotbook to PNG.

    export CVS_RSH=ssh
    mkdir tmp
    cd tmp
    cvs -d address@hidden:/cvsroot/thotbook co .

    while read file
    do
        gif2png -O $file.gif
        cvs delete -f $file.gif
        cvs add $file.png
    done <<'EOF'
libthot/libjpeg/testimg
thoteditor/doc/button
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/Bilbon
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/Sources
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/mainwindow
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/opera
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/outils
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/palette1
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/palette2
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/polygones
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/thot
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/thotdraw
thoteditor/doc/thoteditor/traits
EOF
    cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'


        Thanks for your help,

        The GNU volunteers, address@hidden
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Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Quick note for address@hidden - If you also got an email about the
 > gif issue don't worry about it. Paul has already transformed them to png
 > files for now so the evil 
 > 
 > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:07, Loic Dachary wrote:
 > > Mark Wielaard writes:
 > > 
 > >  > Any particular reason for emailing me? I am a developer on the GNU
 > >  > Classpath project and will take care of it. But wouldn't it make more
 > >  > sense to email the commiter of the files, the project admins or the
 > >  > project mailinglist. Or has that also been done?
 > > 
 > >    Yes, we sent the mail because you're a member of the project and
 > > we hoped you'll be willing to help us on this issue. We were afraid that
 > > a mail on the mailing would be overlooked (everybody thinking that someone
 > > else will take care of the issue ;-)
 > 
 > Sigh. I went through the savannah-hackers mailing list archive and found
 > this
 > http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/savannah-hackers/2002-January/005255.html
 > 
 > It was really not neccessary to email all those people. Especially
 > without explaining that this email was send to everybody that was
 > registered as a developer for that particular project. If you need a
 > contact person in the future please either use the mailinglist
 > address@hidden, email the project admins or if neccessary just email
 > me and we will make sure that such emails will be read and acted upon.
 > But please stop spaming all individual project members.

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