From: uriel@cat-v.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] newaccount.html has gone missing
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:23:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3be98932eb2de4113901b957b015932e@cat-v.org> (raw)
>> The problem is that that somewhat breaks patch(1), it still
>> works but spills a bunch of errors because it can't chmod
>> any files, and it shows up as created by none.
>
> then please submit a patch for patch. patches need to be
> possible to create as none.
They can be created as none, but various things won't work, eg.,
you can't edit/delete it after you create it, and you can't chmod any
of the files either.
Would anyone complain if the email address is a required argument to
patch/create? If someone really doesn't want to provide a real email
address they can always provide a random string.
While we are at it, would it be ok if I moved the new patches
into an /incoming directory rather than keeping them in the top level
patch/ dir?
>> > you need to run 9fs sources; mount /srv/sources /n/sources
>> Question is, should we change patch(1) to do that?
>
> definitely not. patches need to be possible to create as none.
> i think people with sources accounts should just change their
> /rc/bin/9fs scripts. it's a good exercise.
Yes, except that then you have a file permanently out of sync with
sources, and the ensuing troubles with replica.
> the auto-account-creator was a clumsy hack that was
> difficult to maintain. we were only using accounts as
> proof-of-clickthrough. now that the clickthrough is gone,
> the need for accounts is gone too.
Yes, I think everyone is happy to see it gone.
> we'll still create accounts as necessary for people who
> need to write to sources (e.g., in contrib or other places).
> frequent patch submitters are welcome to ask too.
This seems reasonable to me.
uriel
next reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 13:23 uriel [this message]
2006-03-07 13:45 ` Russ Cox
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2006-02-19 19:20 Russ Cox
2006-02-22 2:22 ` Frank Gleason
2006-02-19 6:06 Frank Gleason
2006-02-19 6:45 ` geoff
2006-02-19 8:50 ` uriel
2006-02-19 8:55 ` geoff
2006-02-19 9:17 ` jmk
2006-02-19 9:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-19 10:25 ` uriel
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