Re: Does anybody else miss the CVS Monitor?

Stephen> >From a release management standpoint, the new CVS log accumulator is a Stephen> big step backward. It used to be possible to get a decent idea of Stephen> who's doing what by just looking in the MUA summary window, but no Stephen> more. Stephen> 1. I miss the friendly "CVS Monitor" From header. (whi-i-i-i-ne :) Sorry. I tried. I'm too stupid for Perl. Stephen> 2. The new subject line is essentially useless. Specifically, the Stephen> committer is missing, and much of the time the tiny amount of Stephen> repository information is far too broad to be helpful. I'll see what I can do. Stephen> 3. This is especially annoying if you don't have working broadband (I Stephen> pay for it, but I don't get it half the time) because it means you Stephen> need to download megapatches just to get committer information. Stephen> 4. The stable RE is going to have to pay close attention to *both* Stephen> -patches and -cvs if and when we go to commit-without-submit on the Stephen> assumption that the commit diffs are good enough. At present, he can Stephen> ignore -cvs if he chooses. (Not my problem at the moment, but it Stephen> certainly would be a consideration if I'm a candidate for gamma RE or Stephen> stable RE in the future.) I don't see what that has to do with the format of xemacs-cvs＠ at the time. Stephen> 5. The commit diffs are not an accurate record for review, and if Stephen> iterated cannot be applied to variant workspaces, since they compress Stephen> the patch with -w. Even if the patch applies, a diff against the Stephen> mainline will be spurious. I know that CVS branches aren't terribly Stephen> useful, but this will make them even less so. That I can fix. Stephen> The rest of the stuff I can live with, but I really want committer Stephen> id in the subject, and I think it's quite desirable to give full Stephen> patches, bandwidth be damned. I'm confused. Above you seem to be arguing for the opposite. Supposedly, in the past, the patches would always go to xemacs-patches＠ in the full anyway. I don't see how the new logs change the equation. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla