Re: [Savannah-dev] Re: Forums in savannah

[Marcus Hardt]

Hi Derek!

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 09:59, Derek FEICHTINGER wrote:
> Hi, Marcus
>
> > > > Basically we've enhanced the "monitor forum" feature in the forums.
> > > > Monitoring people now receive emails with a reasonable FROM
> > > > (=REPLY-TO) (=gp_<project>_<forum>@gridportal.fzk.de and a subject
> > > > like
> > > > "[forum_name] <orig-subject> #<checksum/threadnum>". Replies to that
> > > > address will be inserted into the thread in the forum and mailed to
> > > > the monitoring-people-list.
>
> This sounds very useful. It would be nice if one could extend the feature
> to the bug tracker. I assume that the checksum is used to confirm the
> identity of the user? In case of the bug tracker this could probably also
> involve defining some tokens allowing changing bug field values.

Nope, the checksum is only used for identifying the thread. The email in FROM 
identiefies the user...

> > For us at FZK I foresee some trouble, since you seem to have changed the
> > directory structure.
>
> We now have the same problem. It will take quite some work to merge the
> CERN version with the present GNU Savannah code base. Since CVS has no real
> notion of directories and file locations, this comes back to first
> rearranging our CVS repository structure by hand to match the GNU Savannah
> structure. If one wants to retain the ability of checking out old working
> versions, one had best start a completely new CVS module for the new code
> base.
>
> > Also we have checked everything into our own
> > Repository. In this context Derek's suggestion sounds interesting. Most
> > probably I should be more familiar with chapter 13 of Cederqvists CVS
> > manual. Sounds as if it contains the key to merging back in our
> > "branch-in-a-different-cvs".
>
> It's a good way of handling third party sources, although in your local
> repository you loose their CVS meta data (commit messages and tags).
> Unfortunately it only works well if they retain the same directory
> structure.
>
> In the present case it can only be done after adjusting the directory
> structure.

Well, and for us this means: towards winter...

-- 
Marcus