RE: [oic] Version Control Commit by orcmid

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

A separate list is very appropriate.  It should probably be read-only, since
it is not an appropriate place to discuss a commit, simply to mechanically
log them.  It probably doesn't even require an agreement to subscribe to it
(it is more like OASIS [news] in that respect, although for a very narrow
audience).  It might be useful for someone who is observing the addition of
tests cases or something to the SVN repository, at a time when we have more
content and activity of that kind.  

 - Dennis

PS: Further observations

For my own sanity, I did add a rule to my e-mail inbox.  That has anything
with "[oic] Version Control Commit" in the Subject be routed to a sub-folder
of where my OIC TC messages usually go.  I won't know if it is working
properly until more traffic on the subject shows up.  (Messages from me,
such as this one, always go to my junk list because I have not white-listed
myself.)

This does not help with the monster clutter that can result on the OIC TC
List archive (e.g., at
<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/maillist.html>).  

Of course, if this were a serious software development activity, we would
probably want the SVN commit software to post tweets of updates and have a
Facebook profile [;<). 


-----Original Message-----
From: Hanssens Bart [mailto:Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/msg00042.html
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 01:08
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org; mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Version Control Commit by orcmid

Dennis,


Indeed, having lots of commit messages on the main mailing list can be
annoying... Actually I'm more concerned about the archiving part (at
least most email clients allow you to create move-to-another-folder
rules, but things will get a bit messy in the mail archive)

I've suggested OASIS to create a separate mailing list for those
messages (common practice among developers)

Mary: could you perhaps give us an update on that issue ? Is it possible
to have such a separate list, or otherwise turn off the commit mails ?
Thanks)


Best regards,

Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/msg00034.html
Sent: woensdag 18 februari 2009 5:25
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oic] Version Control Commit by orcmid

Well, that is really annoying.  I don't know if we should be getting
commit messages when some bozo like orcmid is fooling around seeing how
to get SVN to work for him.

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