Bugs/Fixes/Enhancements and the lists
rrobbes
rrobbes at info.unicaen.fr
Sat Mar 13 20:42:33 UTC 2004
Thanks Ken, that's much clearer now.
Maybe this should be put on the swiki,
or anywhere it could be easily accessible.
Romain
Ken Causey a écrit:
> I've seen a couple of posts today that seem to indicate continuing
> confusion over the two lists to which bug/fix/enh reports go and how
> BFAV handles them. So I'm going to spell it out here. None of this is
> new and it has been mentioned on the list in various forms in many ways
> before.
>
> Currently the BFAV server is subscribed and listens to two mailing
> lists:
>
> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>
> and
>
> squeak-harvest at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>
> The first of course is our standard mailing list whereas the second is a
> publicly readable list but is intended to only be used by BFAV2 in a
> private manner.
>
> Whenever manually sending out any new report or a comment on an existing
> report and not using the facilities provided by the BFAV2 client ALWAYS
> send them to squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org without exception.
> squeak-harvest at lists.squeakfoundation.org is an open list to ensure that
> anyone anywhere can use BFAV2 without having to sign up on a new mailing
> list. However because of this the BFAV2 server itself ignores any posts
> that do not originate from the BFAV2 client so that we do not end up
> with a bunch of spurious entries in BFAV2 (possibly including spam and
> virus output).
>
> Whenever you use BFAV2 to send out a report you sometimes have the
> opportunity to choose to send the report to either 'Squeak List'
> (squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org) or 'BFAV Server'
> (squeak-harvest at lists.squeakfoundation.org). To decide which to choose
> consider:
>
> 1. If your report and comments are not likely to be of any interest to
> anyone other than the harvesters then choose 'BFAV Server'.
>
> 2. In any other case choose 'Squeak List'.
>
> In general if your report contains nothing more than a simple review of
> an existing report and it's intended audience is the harvester who will
> decide whether or not to approve the submission then you can choose
> 'BFAV Server'. However if you post contains any new information,
> whether as code in a submitted attachment or in the body of the message
> then that post should be sent to the 'Squeak List' where it is more
> likely to be seen.
>
> If you are at all uncertain then choose 'Squeak List'.
>
> Ken
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