On  4/03/10 09:19 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> "James C. McPherson"<jmcp at opensolaris.org>  writes:
>
>> On  4/03/10 07:52 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> Fortunately, the ONNV Flag Days web page is available again (thanks a
>>> lot!), but it would be very helpful if *all* the flag day messages could
>>> also be posted to on-discuss, not only an arbitrary selection.
>>>
>>> Any chance to achieve this?
>>
>>
>> No, not a sausage.
>>
>>
>> OK, now with my not-so grumpy gk hat on, the issue is
>> that the html in the old pages wasn't something I changed.
>> I really didn't feel like editing 25 separate parent pages
>> and just wanted to get things moving again. In the next
>> week or so, once we've got the IPS move bedded down
>> properly, I should have some spare cycles to actually get
>> in and make the necessary changes so that all the old pages
>> show up correctly.
>
> Thanks a lot for your amazing work, but I may not have expressed myself
> ambiguously: I wasn't talking about the old pages/flag day messages
> (although they still often come in handy),

Ah :-) - and thankyou!


> but about how to get all
> posters of *new* flag day messages to include on-discuss in their Cc:
> list.  This way, you get a choice whether to read that stuff on w.o.o or
> via mail.  Currently, it seems quite arbitrary what messages are posted
> to the on-discuss mailing list and which ones only go to the web
> (probably because they were only posted to Sun-internal aliases).

That's probably because neither JBeck nor I have been
wielding a big enough stick.

We keep reminding people that they need to send a separate
message to on-discuss at opensolaris.org. Perhaps one day it'll
be something people do without us having to remind them.


James
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Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog

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