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Re: [PATCH] Re: Improving List Archive Searching
Igor, the password for the cvs server is anoncvs...
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----- Original Message -----
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: [PATCH] Re: Improving List Archive Searching
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to suggest and request that "cygcheck -s" output not be
> > included in the body of postings to the Cygwin mailing list. Because
that
> > output includes a list of packages, DLLs and key executables, including
it
> > in the body of a message can cause many false hits when searching the
list
> > archives for message pertinent to a particular program, package or
library.
> > For this reason, I believe it's distinctly preferable to place that
output
> > in an attachment.
> >
> > Perhaps when cygcheck output is solicited in pursuit of a problem
diagnosis
> > the person requesting that output could include a reminder of the
> > preference for placing that output in an attachment?
> >
> > I don't think this is the sort of thing to enforce the way UCE is
blocked
> > and that merely suggesting this change in practice won't eliminate it
even
> > if everyone were to agree, but if we could start to shift the general
> > practice regarding posting of cygcheck output to one of preferring
> > attachments, it would improve the "signal-to-noise" ratio for those
putting
> > in the effort of searching for answers already extant in the list
archives
> > before posting.
> >
> > Randy
>
> I agree with the sentiment, and I guess other people do too, since I've
> noticed a lot of new messages explicitly mentioning the attachment.
> However, the FAQ and the bug reporting page need to be updated, as people
> looking there receive conflicting instructions. Attached are patches to
> bugs.html and src/winsup/doc/how-resources.texinfo. The FAQ will need to
> be regenerated once the second patch is applied. The patches will
> probably need to be applied to different CVS subtrees, sorry. Oh, and
> they probably don't need ChangeLog entries, do they?
>
> On a separate note, I wasn't able to check out the cygwin webpages using
> anoncvs, so I had to use WebCVS and wget. I tried 'cvs -d
> :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin checkout htdocs', and the
> error I got was
>
> cvs checkout: authorization failed: server sources.redhat.com rejected
access to /cvs/cygwin for user anoncvs
> cvs checkout: used empty password; try "cvs login" with a real password
>
> It's not essential that I'm able to check this out, but it would be good
> to know whether I'm doing it right or I've screwed up somewhere.
> Igor
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