cvs log mailing list?

[NAGY Andras <nagya@inf.elte.hu>]

Is there a mailing list where log messages for changes in the Gnus CVS
tree are posted?

If no, I suggest creating one.  This would provide a convenient method
for tracking Gnus development.

CVS' loginfo mechanism makes implementation quite easy.

Here's an example (from the MAGE project, which has been dead for a
long time).  I've set up the mailing list, mage-cvs@mage.rulez.org and
granted posting permisson only for the cvs@mage.rulez.org address
(this is the account the cvs server runs at).   Created the
CVSROOT/users file, which contains email addresses for developers in
the format

cvslogin:email@address.com

Then added the following to CVSROOT/loginfo:

ALL (echo -e "From: $USER <`grep "^$USER:" $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/users | cut -d: -f2`>\nTo: mage-cvs@mage.rulez.org\nSubject: "%s"\nSender: cvs@mage.rulez.org\n"; cat) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -oem -t -f cvs@mage.rulez.org


If a listing of developers is not available, this could be modified
not to use the users file but put a generic email address in the From
field.  On the other hand, if developers would like to see their
fullname in the headers, we could make the users file look like

cvslogin:Andrew U. THOR <author@gnus.org>

and modify the command as well:

[...]echo -e "From: `grep[...]`\n[...]"



Andras