Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Mention the findutils-patches mailing list in README-alpha.

[James Youngman]

On 6/25/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> It would be useful to mention the URL of the list archives here.
[...]
> Symmetry - in one place, you mentioned the email address for
> subscriptions, in the other, you mentioned the web form.  It would be nice
> if both paragraphs were similar.

Thanks for your comments.   To address these points, I actually
applied tis patch:-

Index: README-alpha
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/findutils/findutils/README-alpha,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 README-alpha
--- README-alpha        31 Oct 2004 15:08:29 -0000      1.3
+++ README-alpha        26 Jun 2007 07:22:20 -0000
@@ -7,9 +7,19 @@ The latest full release is available at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils.


+Discussion of the findutils package and ways to improve it takes place
+on the "bug-findutils" mailing list, which you can join by sending
+mail to address@hidden  An archive of patches to the
+bug-findutils mailing list is available at
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/.
+
Bug reports, suggested patches and enhancement requests for findutils
should be logged at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils.

-Discussion of findutils and ways to improve the package takes place on
-the "bug-findutils" mailing list, which you can join by sending mail
-to address@hidden
+Changes to the findutils code are sent to the findutils-patches
+mailing list.  To join, please send email to
address@hidden  You are also welcome to send patches to
+that list, but unless you are a list subscriber, you won't be able to
+follow any resulting discussion.  An archive of posts to the
+findutils-patches mailing list is available at
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/.


James.