On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:47 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: > On 10/31/2011 18:22, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:15 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: >> >>> Hi, Dennis, >>> >>> On 10/31/2011 16:13, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: <snip> >>>> Yes, I am subscribed to ooo-commits. Unfortunately, the CWiki >>>> commits don't come over as diffs but as complete text before and >>>> after. So I rarely read them. For me, all they serve as is a >>>> reminder to go to the CWiki page and find out what really >>>> happened. I find ooo-issues much easier to handle. >>>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> This is a matter of how you set your preferences in Cwiki. You have >>> to allow delivery of notices in HTML, because the diffs come in >>> color, just like what you see on the Cwiki when you click, "view >>> changes". I'm getting both diff and full-text at the moment, which >>> is very handy: if I need to see the change in full context, I can >>> look at the second message, otherwise not. --/tj/ >> >> That is true. Unfortunately according to this[1] it is against ASF >> Policy. One of the motivations for the Apache CMS was how poorly >> Confluence performs. [2] >> >> Regards, Dave >> >> [1] >> https://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/#Index-Postingemailalertstoamailinglist >> >> [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html#confluence-limitations >> > Hi, Dave, > > Thanks for the fascinating links. I expect to be making a lot of use of > Apache CMS: to my proof-reader's eye, many of the ASF pages look somewhat > shabby and neglected. One example is the penultimate sentence in > http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html#build > > My bad: since the discussion was in the context of coo-commits, I should have > made it clear that I was talking about watch-list messages, sent straight to > the watcher. > > (I find the general ban on HTML obnoxious, though I understand at least some > of the rationale. I am absolutely /lost/ without my /stress italics./ :-) )
It is not a universally accepted ban... I would prefer to have the html diffs for all. Regards, Dave > > -- > /tj/ >
