Re: [PATCH] Re: Improving List Archive Searching

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Doh!!!!!  *bangs head on wall*
It's been so long since I had to check out a new repository, I plain
forgot...  Thanks!
	Igor

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Igor, the password for the cvs server is anoncvs...
>
> Elfyn
> ----- 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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