Re: RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss]Changes to the Genunix Wiki
Roland Mainz wrote: Erm... I was proposing a mailinglist for the diffs of the Genunix.org Wiki commits, not something for the OpenSolaris main repository... Ah, I misread it... doing too many things at once. Anyway, same answer, if you want to implement it, let me know and I can arrange to put it in place. Build it and they will come. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki
Ben Rockwood wrote: If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of the changes are posted (similar to a CVS commit list most opensource projects have) ? Yes, I know... there is the RSS feed - but that requires special machinery (e.g. RSS client), has no archive (mailman has all the postings archived) and does not allow easy searching (mails from mailman can simply be searched in your local mail folder (or GMail)). This could greatly help tracking down malicious changes, allows quick reactions when the spambots attack again (well... emails from commit lists are usually near realtime... :-) ) and even allow better communication within the community (e.g. it would be possible to comment on diffs and debate them...). Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki
Roland Mainz wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of the changes are posted (similar to a CVS commit list most opensource projects have) ? Yes, I know... there is the RSS feed - but that requires special machinery (e.g. RSS client), has no archive (mailman has all the postings archived) and does not allow easy searching (mails from mailman can simply be searched in your local mail folder (or GMail)). This could greatly help tracking down malicious changes, allows quick reactions when the spambots attack again (well... emails from commit lists are usually near realtime... :-) ) and even allow better communication within the community (e.g. it would be possible to comment on diffs and debate them...). This sort of thing will be more plausible in the future when a proper SCM is in place and each individual putback/commit is made, rather than the current en mass drops. A variety of mechanisms will grow up around the infrastructure. That said, in the meantime, your free to undertake such a task as you propose now, yourself. This is a community, feel free to contribute. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
