Comments on The Julipedia: Blog: Mailing lists for commit notifications

mirabilos: I'd be interested to hear what Trac is ...

2009-05-14T16:21:00.000+02:00

mirabilos: I'd be interested to hear what Trac is not doing right in your opinion.

I think Trac has a few flaws, mostly wrt user management and such, but overall I think it's great. It's reasonably simple and does most what I need. Don't forget this is just an internal project he's talking about, not a huge free software project with tons of users/devs.

In any case, there are several other ticket tracking systems that integrate with version control systems that might be worth looking at if you don't like Trac.

@Peter Bex: trac does more, but it doesn’t do a si...

2009-05-14T12:38:00.000+02:00

@Peter Bex: trac does more, but it doesn’t do a single thing right.

On the other hand, GMane offers conversion services from mailing lists to Web (bidirectional), NNTP (yeah! bidirectional too. this rocks! of course you set the cvs lists to read-only) and four different kinds of RSS feeds.

I disagree about the diffs, they can become huge, ...

2009-05-14T12:35:00.000+02:00

I disagree about the diffs, they can become huge, but OpenBSD’s way sucks too.

MirBSD now adds cvs instructions telling how to get the diff at the bottom, similar to NetBSD®. I admit that at least active developers are currently always on the cvs list ☺

You might be able to get them to see the value of ...

2009-05-14T12:34:00.000+02:00

You might be able to get them to see the value of installing Trac (or a similar ticket tracking system that integrates with svn). With Trac you can have RSS feeds of commits, which serve the same purpose as a mailinglist (minus the ability to comment on those commits on the same list)