Hi Derek! On Tuesday 22 July 2003 09:59, Derek FEICHTINGER wrote: > Hi, Marcus > > > > > Basically we've enhanced the "monitor forum" feature in the forums. > > > > Monitoring people now receive emails with a reasonable FROM > > > > (=REPLY-TO) (=gp_<project>_<forum>@gridportal.fzk.de and a subject > > > > like > > > > "[forum_name] <orig-subject> #<checksum/threadnum>". Replies to that > > > > address will be inserted into the thread in the forum and mailed to > > > > the monitoring-people-list. > > This sounds very useful. It would be nice if one could extend the feature > to the bug tracker. I assume that the checksum is used to confirm the > identity of the user? In case of the bug tracker this could probably also > involve defining some tokens allowing changing bug field values.
Nope, the checksum is only used for identifying the thread. The email in FROM identiefies the user... > > For us at FZK I foresee some trouble, since you seem to have changed the > > directory structure. > > We now have the same problem. It will take quite some work to merge the > CERN version with the present GNU Savannah code base. Since CVS has no real > notion of directories and file locations, this comes back to first > rearranging our CVS repository structure by hand to match the GNU Savannah > structure. If one wants to retain the ability of checking out old working > versions, one had best start a completely new CVS module for the new code > base. > > > Also we have checked everything into our own > > Repository. In this context Derek's suggestion sounds interesting. Most > > probably I should be more familiar with chapter 13 of Cederqvists CVS > > manual. Sounds as if it contains the key to merging back in our > > "branch-in-a-different-cvs". > > It's a good way of handling third party sources, although in your local > repository you loose their CVS meta data (commit messages and tags). > Unfortunately it only works well if they retain the same directory > structure. > > In the present case it can only be done after adjusting the directory > structure. Well, and for us this means: towards winter... -- Marcus
