[Savannah-hackers] Mailing lists on savannah (was: Boolean expression finder)

[Guillaume Morin]

Dans un message du 15 mai à 23:59, Richard Stallman écrivait :
>
>     Currently, savannah proposes a form to add a mailing list. It looks like
> 
>     Name of the list: projectname-XXXXXXXX
> 
>     and XXXXX is what the user has to provided.
> 
> That needs to be changed, because it is contrary to our conventions.
> We have three conventional mailing lists for each project:
> 
> bug-PROJECT    for reporting bugs
> help-PROJECT   for asking for help
> info-PROJECT   for announcements

Ok, I've implemented this.

> Every project must have a bug- list.  The help- list and the info- list
> are optional, but if a project has lists for those jobs, they must
> use these names.
> 
> Any other lists for the project should have names PROJECT-XXXXX.
> 
> So what Savannah should do is:
> 
> 1. Always create bug-PROJECT, and ask the maintainer questions
> about how to set it up.

That seems hard. Indeed, mailing lists can be handled by /etc/aliases so
it would not work. I suggest to tell people about bug-projectname if the
acceptation email.

> Please rename the halifax-bugs list to bug-halifax and tell the
> halifax maintainers.

It should be done soon.

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Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>

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