Re: [Savannah-hackers] GNATS host?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> Dans un message du 19 Feb ` 19:52, Hugo Gayosso icrivait :
> > Mailman can't automatically generate new mailing lists (so far), so
> > Savannah should send an email to <address@hidden>, and then
> > the mailing list should be created manually.
> 
> Well, you can create a mailing list with the newlist script. My plan was
> to write a cronjob for the mailman user (or at least a user that can
> create list) that would read a list sent by subversions.
> 
> Do you see a problem with the strategy ?

Three thoughts:

1) Make the same username check that we're doing when creating new 
accounts for savannah.

2) Respect Emacs' file locking and retry later if it fails.

3) Create backup files a la Emacs

After that I don't see any barriers.

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