What to do about the xemacs-cvs mailing list?

Michael Sperber sperber at deinprogramm.de
Mon Jan 9 14:09:20 EST 2012


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Michael Sperber writes:
>
>  > ... given that there's no CVS anymore?  Just zap references to it from
>  > the web pages?
>
> In some places you might want to note that commit notices are now gong
> to xemacs-patches.  Otherwise, just zap the references seems simplest.
>
> Actually, I thought the hg notices were going to xemacs-cvs, but I see
> that nothing, not even spam has gone to that list since May.  Does it
> really make sense to send those commit notices to patches, given that
> they're basically useless for review (they don't contain a patch)?
> You could redirect those to xemacs-cvs.
>
> If you think such a write-only list would be a good idea to reduce
> noise on xemacs-patches, but would prefer a name like xemacs-commits,
> I can create a new list.

I think that would be best.  The "-cvs" really sends the wrong message.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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