Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:57:35 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: send-pr again Message-ID: <52847.1037015855@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:52:32 %2B0100." <xzpn0ogiarj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzpn0ogiarj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: >> 3) Stop putting submitted PR's directly into the database, instead forward >> them to a mailbox which the bugbusters sort through ? > >That was one of my long-term goals when I was bugmeister. >Unfortunately, I never got around to implementing it. > >Briefly, this requires: It would be much faster and simpler to: Store all incoming PRs (web or otherwise) in a mailbox. Have a team of PR-scrubbers take turns at reading the mailbox, forwarding he good PR's to GNATS using a commandline. > - adding a new PR state, e.g. "fresh" > > - modifying Gnats to use "fresh" instead of "open" for incoming PRs, > store them in a separate directory, and not send a receipt. > > - modifying the web query interface to *never, ever* show "fresh" > PRs. > > - modifying the gnats cvsup collection to exclude the directory where > "fresh" PRs are stored. > > - modifying Gnats to send "fresh" PRs to a closed list (to which only > committers and / or bugbusters are allowed to subscribe) instead of > -bugs, -ports etc. > > - creating tools for moving PRs from "fresh" to either "open" or > "closed". When a PR moves from "fresh" to "open", a receipt is > sent to the originator and the entire PR is mailed to -bugs, -ports > or whatever. > >If anyone is interested in taking this on, I can offer further advice >on how to implement the above requirements. > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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