Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] creating lists

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:16:24PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:54:25AM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Hi Sylvain,
> > 
> > So is it savannah_wrapper.pl or mycreate_list.pl or something else that
> > gets invoked on lists.gnu.org to deal with lists?  I kind of suspect the
> > former, but all the README's and such I found talk about the latter ...
> 
> Both:
> 
> - mycreate_list.pl is a command-line tool to create list with the
>   fsf-specific idiosyncrasies (multi-domains support, bug work-around,
>   default configuration, etc. - i.e. don't use 'newlist' directly)
> 
> - savannah_wrapper.pl does the same thing, except that it's not a
>   command-line tool, but a cheap RPC that Savannah calls via SSH
>   (short of having sysadmin agree that a Savane setup do share the
>   MySQL database across computers to avoid such tricks).
> 
> Btw, I think I remember restoring mycreate_list.pl from RCS/ a month
> or two ago - was it you who removed it?
> 
> > Can we move old scripts and files to ~list/archive/ please, so they
> > don't look like they are still live?  (I've cleaned up a bunch, but I'm
> > not sure in this case.)
> 
> I renamed 'archive' to '00-oldscripts2keep' because 'archive' already
> has a meaning in the context of a mailing-lists system :)

I recreated 'archive' and moved 00-oldscripts2keep/lm* in it, because
apparently 'archive' was used by a cron job for "live" stuff as well.


> I cleaned-up a couple things too.
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain