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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