Re: Public patch penguin

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:32:45 +0100


On January 31, 2002 02:48 am, Drew P. Vogel wrote:
> > It's been done before with various levels of success. Some would
> > like it, others (myself included) would likely not use it.
> > I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Any tool which requires
> > me to start up a web browser to do something productive is a major
> > nuisance.

Hi Dave,

> Honestly I feel the same. Unfortunately installing new tools to do this is
> also a larger task than should be required. Personally, I would like a
> public ftp archive for patches to reside. I don't have a
> machine/connection I can open up ftp though.

Agreed. Please have a look at what we're doing here:

http://killeri.net/cgi-bin/alias/ezmlm-cgi

It's too early to try the code, currently at version 0.0 (thanks to Rasmus
Andersen for that, Kalle Kivimaa for the mail list). The guilding design
rule is to do everything with MTAs that submitters and maintainers _are
already using_, and to do it _just as they do it now_, using a normal mail
archive as the data base. The only thing that changes is: you mail the
patchbot instead of the maintainer.

Submitters will need to put some minimal number of additional lines in the
body of the email, and it's possible we'll get the 'minimal number' down to
zero for common cases (one line description comes from subject, long
description comes from mail, purpose is implied by [BUGFIX] in subject line,
etc).

Do you see anything to object to so far?

-- 
Daniel
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