[arch] cvs-commit mailing list

[James]

On 4/21/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wondered if it would be great to have a special mailing list to which
> > all cvs-commits are sent? This was introduced at pacman-dev and I think this
> > is very usefull. (I think especially for those who port packages from i686 to
> > x86_64 and those who maintain packages which depend on packages maintained by
> > someone elese)
> >
> > In addition to this it would be nice if extratpkg would ask for a comment by
> > default and not just use "updpkg".
> >
> > There should be one list for current/extra/testing/unstable and one for
> > community.
>
> Yep, it's being talked about.  I'm currently in the process of setting
> something up.
> ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-April/000304.html
>
> I agree on the one for community, but that will probably come after
> this current one when I see how it works.  arch-commits and
> aur-commits perhaps /me shrugs
>
> I actually plan on getting this one done tonight, if I don't get too busy.

I don't see how much use it is for packages, beyond for porters. Maybe
it ought to be opt-in, rather than opt-out? I really don't mind what
you do with gxine, or tomk does with openssl, you're both more than
capable of maintaining them properly.

James

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