~ Oh no, what did he do this time? -------------------------------- I have finally reached this far corner of tasks on my plate, and managed to get the Plucker CVS commit emails all indexed and put into a list for subscribing.
~ In English this time please (what does that mean?) -------------------------------------------------- For each change made to Plucker that is committed to our revision control system (currently cvs, though plans to test and potentially move to Subversion are in the works), a log entry is generated. This log entry is parsed, and an email is created, which can be used to track changes to Plucker's main codebase. For 5+ years, these emails have been sitting in a folder, doing nothing except collecting dust. ~ How long have you been getting these emails? -------------------------------------------- Since November 1999, according to my archives. 3,213 messages so far, going from November 13 1999 to current. Early on, these were only meant to track any possible problems with the cvs, and they were redirected to a separate folder anyway, unseen by anyone except myself. They actually are pretty useful for tracking development, so I've made them public. ~ So this is just for developers, right? -------------------------------------- No, definately not. Users who are interested in seeing how their currently-reported bugs or features are coming along are also welcome to track some of the changes being done to the codebase. Developers will probably benefit the most, but anyone is welcome to join and read the commits as they happen, on a near-live basis. ~ Can I post messages or replies to these emails? ----------------------------------------------- No, unfortunately you cannot. The list is read-only, and heavily moderated to keep spam and anything else that might try to sneak posts onto the list out. There are other mailing lists (like this one) that should be used for discussing code changes or bugs or features or any other aspect of Plucker. You should use them instead, for posting messages and issues. ~ Great! Lead the way, how do I subscribe to it? ---------------------------------------------- Point your browser to http://lists.plkr.org/ and click on the 'plucker-commits' list listed there and subscribe. It may take a few hours for the domain name to propagate around the world's dns, but it will be functional by the time you get this message, hopefully. If not, try back in a few hours. You can also subscribe by sending a message to the email address of 'plucker-commits-subscribe', with the word 'subscribe' in the subject of the email (or is it the body, I forget, use both ;) If you find any glaring issues, bugs, account problems, or things you think I can add to enhance that particular list or any other features of the public web presence, scripts, docs, etc., please let me know, and I'll try to get right on it. I've also got the Plucker lists going back to 1998 or so that I will archive in a similar fashion, in the same place (also read-only, since the main lists are graciously hosted by Mark Lillywhite on rubberchicken.org). The news server will be back up as well, once some new hardware arrives here on the Right Coast to handle it. Fun things are coming... keep on Plucking! d. _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev