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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