Why cann't we re-open a BFAV group? Was:RE: Squeak 3.8 status
Thomas Koenig
tomkoenig at mindspring.com
Sat Aug 7 18:34:34 UTC 2004
Doug,
I will pursue the reopen and split/merge issues. Who do I talk to about
the server side?
Tom
Doug wrote
>
> True, we can't "rewrite an email", but in some ways that's okay,
> because if you keep all the emails, you keep the history of what's
> happened.
>
> I think right now the BFAV client doesn't classify groups
> according to
> the order in which posts appear. In other words, if there's a
> "[closed]" anywhere in a group, right now it always treats it as
> closed. We should be able to add a [reopened] tag, which
> moves a group
> back to the Review tab. But it should only appear there if a
> [reopened] post appears *after* the last [closed] post. It
> should also
> be possible to close a reopened post again, of course.
>
> Actually, I've needed the same capability for moving an
> [approved] item
> back to Review status. There are several groups under Approved right
> now (at the bottom of the list) that have some issue and
> should go back
> to Review. We could probably also handle this with a [reopened] tag.
>
> So, if we could enhance the BFAV client to do this, that
> would be a big
> improvement. Should be doable.
>
> I guess support for a new [reopened] tag also needs to be
> added to the
> BFAV server. (I'm not quite sure why the BFAV server has to
> know about
> all the tags... I guess this is for performance reasons?)
>
[snip]
> Merging groups together would be more difficult with the current
> system... I know Ken has talked about eventually replacing the
> emailed-based server with something more robust.
[snip]
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