Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 06:31:51PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:42:35 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>  * FESCo
> >>   * The old FESCo didn't work to well. A lot of members weren't very
> >> active. A lot of stuff was still discussed, but a lot of things didn't
> >> get done. Some things were discussed and agreed on, but not documented
> >> in the wiki.
> > There ought to be a web page with announcements. The history of decisions
> > made by FESCo. 
> 
> I think the FESCo meeting summaries should have a section annoucements.
> 
> But I oppose a web page with a decision history. Decisions should be
> documented at a proper place where they belong (for exmplae the
> dead.package mechanism should be documented on the extras-cvs-faq page.
> Or in a maintainer guide). They need to be documented there in any case
> >>   * Sponsors should be able to "subscribe" to the people they sponsored
> >> -- e.g. they should get additional mails when people they sponsored
> >> commit something to cvs, requested a build ...
> > Not necessary for commits.
> 
> I'd like to have them for commits.

procmail.
# Filter for my own packages
:0 Hc
* ^X-BeenThere:.*fedora-extras-commits at redhat.com
* ? formail -x"Subject:" | egrep -is -f $HOME/.procmail-fedora-extras-packages
$HOME/Mail/fe-mypackages


> > Full name and user name are in the "From"
> > line in the mail header and in the "Author:" field of the body.
> 
> Username might change and thus break local filters. Local filter can be
> forgotten. Or set up wrongly.
> 
> Also non-sponsors might be interested in this feature as well.

Sure, it can be over-engineered, but need it be?

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Matt Domsch
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