BFA

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Sat Nov 22 06:04:24 UTC 2003


On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Brent Vukmer wrote:

> Ned's right about the back-end for the current BFAV.
>
> The BFAV2 server does what Scott wants, I think.   I don't have the 
> BFAV2 client ready yet, but you can take a look at 
> http://bfav.squeakfoundation.org/listing to see which messages are 
> coming into the BFAV2 archive.

That sounds good.  It's understandable that sqfixes doesn't include the 
"Re:" responses given the original intent of sqfixes.  But I agree with 
Scott that it would really be better for the BFAV to show these.

Looking forward to the BFAV2 client...

- Doug


>
> Cheers,
> Brent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org on behalf of Ned 
> Konz
> Sent:   Thu 11/20/2003 8:17 PM
> To:     The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Cc:    
> Subject:        Re: BFA
>
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 4:51 pm, Scott Wallace wrote:
>
> > Or am I missing something obvious?  The code to make BFAV be
> > prefix-friendly (i.e. ignore all characters in subject lines before
> > the first "[") could be written by any reader of this list in five
> > minutes.  What's the downside?
>
> Actually, it's not the BFAV's fault; it's the SQFIXES mailaction that 
> records
> the traffic from the list.
>
> Originally, it just was collecting the heads of threads (original 
> postings of
> BUG, FIX, ANN, etc.).
>
> When the BFAV was created, the decision was made to use the SQFIXES 
> archive as
> a source, and so the BFAV is careful not to prepend anything before 
> the first
> "[" in the subject.
>
>
>
>
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