Ben Rockwood wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > >Ben Rockwood wrote: > > > >> If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general > >>Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. > > > >Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of > >the changes are posted (similar to a CVS commit list most opensource > >projects have) ? Yes, I know... there is the RSS feed - but that > >requires special machinery (e.g. RSS client), has no archive (mailman > >has all the postings archived) and does not allow easy searching (mails > >from mailman can simply be searched in your local mail folder (or > >GMail)). > > > >This could greatly help tracking down malicious changes, allows quick > >reactions when the spambots attack again (well... emails from commit > >lists are usually near realtime... :-) ) and even allow better > >communication within the community (e.g. it would be possible to comment > >on diffs and debate them...). > > > > > This sort of thing will be more plausible in the future when a proper > SCM is in place and each individual putback/commit is made, rather than > the current en mass drops. A variety of mechanisms will grow up around > the infrastructure.
Erm... I was proposing a mailinglist for the diffs of the Genunix.org Wiki commits, not something for the OpenSolaris main repository... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
