CVS, Mailman, and HTML

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:07:58 EDT
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:

>Well, this is a good idea, but I have some issues with it.

Only because you haven't tried it :)

>First, it requires a "group" account for access to the mailbox.

No it does not.  It requires an ACL entry of 'anyone lrsp'.

> Group accounts lead to problems because people can delete the e-mails,

Which is why we don't have group accounts.

> they can move them to a local folder, etc.

They can copy, but not move.

>Not that this idea doesn't have merit.

I think it has more than merit, it works and has for over 4 years here.

>It was actually my original course of action. My original plan was to
>have the cvs diffs sent to the team leads and have them filtered into
>public folders. Unfortunately, that was too much of a single point of
>failure. That's when the mailing lists came into play. Everything works
>as it should, except this one minor point. OK, so it isn't that minor,
>but I'm sure it can be fixed!

Sure it can, by archiving to a centrally accessible IMAP folder :)


Seeya,
Paul
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