[Zope3-dev] Re: Notifications not appearing on zope3-checkins
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Sat Jan 21 07:32:50 EST 2006
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>
>>After I checked in code into the Zope 3 repository this week, I never
>>saw corresponding notifications posted to the zope3-checkins mailing
>>list. I don't think I saw notifications for my checkins during 2005,
>>either.
>>
>>Note that notifications have a "from" header matching the email address
>>of the person checking in. My wild guess is that:
>>
>>1. The zope3-checkins list disallows posts from people not subscribed to
>>the list.
>
>
> Correct. It actually discards the messages, I think. Perhaps it should
> just reject them.
It does neither.
It is currently holding mail for approval. I just approved a number of
held messages.
The rules are a bit more detailed. I don't wish to go into more
detail in public, You can contact me privately if you have questions.
>
>>2. Subversion thinks my address is still shane at zope.com, but that
>>address no longer exists.
>
>
> Subversion will take whichever email address you gave for your zope.org
> account.
Yup
>
>>If I'm right, the list is rejecting posts from anyone who doesn't happen
>>to be subscribed. My suggestion is that checkin notifications should
>>have a generic "from" header like "svn at zope.org". Some other header can
>>have the email address of the person checking in.
>
>
> I strongly suggest that the Reply-To header would have the email of the
> original person in this case. Because then it'll still be easy to simply
> hit the "reply" button for check-in emails.
I strongly prefer what we're doing now wrt headers.
I'm 99% sure that we are not rejecting any checkin mail.
Jim
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