[Mageia-sysadm] Gmane subscriptions...

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 00:38, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 01:06 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> tis 2011-04-05 klockan 00:58 +0300 skrev Michael Scherer:
>> > Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 00:51 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> > > I have now added:
>> > >
>> > > bugs
>> > > changelog
>> > > packages-commits
>> > > soft-commits
>> > >
>> > > to be tracked by Gmane.
>> >
>> > How ?
>> >
>> > Afaik, you need to open a identity account for that to work
>> > ( colin already tried, I also spoke of the issue 6 months ago when we
>> > talked about it )
>> > >
>>
>> I got a mail from Gmane admins stating sympa dont allow subscriptions,
>> and they asked to manually add a specific mail for the lists I wanted.
>>
>> So I just logged into sympa, selected proper list, chose "manage
>> subscriptions", pasted in the mail address in "Add an user" and thats
>> all needed...
>
> We should automate this IMHO.
>
> My plan was to add some whitelist for gmane, and some script to
> subscribe to gmane using www::mechanize, as this would auto subscribe
> new lists that we created.
>
>> > > Looking on *-commits, I think it would be nicer to get commit path in
>> > > subject like in mdv, makes it easier to filter...
>> >
>> > Why not
>> >
>> > > And committer alias intstead of root...
>> >
>> > I would prefer that we keep alias to the bare minimum
>>
>> how do you mean ?
>
> mhh, I think you wanted "committer at mageia" rather than root at . That
> didn't made much sense now I think of.
>

What about something like "login" <mageia-dev at mageia.org> ?

>> every committer already have an alias (or login actually)
>
> Nope. Only founders have for now.
>
> $ grep aliases_group  modules/postfix/manifests/init.pp
>        $aliases_group = ['mga-founders']
>
> For sure we can add to others, but I would prefer that we formalise a
> little bit more how do we distribute them ( ie what about others group
> than packagers and translators who are in ldap, as we should strive to
> include others group as well ).