Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: mail from rms

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Actually we usually provide a non-privileged account to new members so
they can study the Savannah system without modifying it. Of course, a
test install is a must to test the changes :) People are usually given
more privileges after a few weeks of Savannah contribution.

If fixing a priority is needed, a discussion have to happen with the
Savannah hackers, since they, I believe, are the most knowledgeable
group regarding this kind of issue.

Bala, anytime you have a question about Savannah, feel free to ask
#savannah or address@hidden We surely already have an
answer.

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:26:46PM -0700, Anand Babu wrote:
> Bala,
> Tell RMS, that you already took the task of "viewcvs" python
> exception. If he thinks "log_accum" is of higher priority, you can
> start with this one instead. 
> 
> For security reasons it is not possible to share admin passwords to
> members outside savannah-hackers.  Until you get accepted into the ore
> team, You will need to setup a local savannah like environment to
> reproduce the same bugs.  I can help you with that. On Monday, I will
> get a dedicated server to play with.
> 
> --
> Anand Babu
> 
> ,----[ "Bala.A" <address@hidden> ]
> | AB,
> | RMS asked me this(see attachment).
> | I think, I need access to savannah machines.
> | 
> | Bala
> | 
> `----
> -- 
> Free as in Freedom
> http://www.gnu.org/
> 
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Subject: One change we need
> To: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:54:09 -0400
> Reply-to: address@hidden
> 
> Savannah has a feature of mailing diffs to a mailing list
> automatically.  The script that does this was formerly called
> log_accum, and maybe it still is called log_accum.
> 
> I tried to add a feature to log_accum that would specify
> "only changes to a specific branch" or "only changes in the trunk".
> But this feature does not seem to work.
> 
> Could you debug it, and make it work?
> 
> Then we could change the emacs-diff mailing list so that it only
> reports changes in the trunk.  We could have some other lists to
> report changes in various branches, if people want them.
> 
> Also, currently the emacs-diff list gets occasional spam.
> The only mail to emacs-diff and other such lists that is legitimate
> is the mail produced by log_accum.  Perhaps you can set up something
> to reject any mail that doesn't come from Savannah.  We could use
> that for all of these lists.  Something simple might do the job.
> 
> Do you want to work on this?
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