From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 04:46:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA26937 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 04:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA26929 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 04:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.4/8.6.12) id UAA17207 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:47:04 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: 15 Mar 96 12:40:17 GMT From: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: , <199603141515.AA15941@Sisyphos> Subject: Re: Commit messages Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes: >On Mar 14, 6:41, "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: >} Subject: Re: Commit messages >} Wes Santee wrote: >} > >} > 'Lo all. >} > >} > Is there a mailing list for receiving CVS commit messages for the >} > -stable branch only? Did a 'lists' command at majordomo@freebsd.org, >} > but didn't see anything that fit the bill. >} >} no, ther is not. and the cvs-meister will have to vet what >} i am saying here: commits to the -stable branch are just >} that commits to a branch rather than commits to a cvs >} module. the cvs commit messages are generated be each >} commit to a module. that's why there is not a cvs-stable >} list. > >Well, your technical explanation is one thing, >but the expectations of people running -stable >is another. > >But it might be possible to make both ends meet >and have the commit message mailer send it to a >cvs-stable list, if RELENG_2_1_0 is affected. > >I guess, people running -stable would love such >a mail list. (No, I'm none of them, but I have >talked with a few in the past ... :) > >Regards, STefan Well, if there was enough demand for it, I guess I could whip something up to do it... (It wouldn't be too hard, just a few lines of perl) Note that I personally dislike the idea, but I'm happy to go along with what people want. IMHO, if we do this, then we're going to have problems with people that are running -stable not knowing what's in the pipeline in -current, and we'll start to see wheels being reinvented... -Peter >-- > Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 > Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 > ============================================================================== > http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se