Re: [Savannah-help-public] Can't check in Emacs files!

[Sylvain Beucler]

I already answered your questions in the previous e-mail (appended for
reference).

Feel free to ask more details if needed.

-- 
Sylvain

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:29:05 +0100
From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
To: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] Urgent! Cannot edit /philosophy!
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

The message changed a few minutes later with a direct link to the
specific news item explaining the changes.

That page also includes 2 one-liners to convert your repository (one
for anonymous working copy, one for member working copy):

find -path '.*/CVS/Root' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i -p -e 
's/address@hidden/address@hidden/'

We currently have no way to send mail to our 40000 users. We once
tried working on it, and got timeout issues with Mailman - provided
Mailman can handled 40000 invites in the first place, as Jim had
pointed at that time.

We tried documenting 'cvs.savannah' instead of plain 'savannah' for a
few months now. New members already use the right URL.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:57:22PM -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> The problem seems to have spread to Emacs files too.
> Two hours ago I was able to check them in; now I can't.
> 
> There is now an item down in the "News" section; that location is
> inadequately visible.  Please put it at the top of the page.
> 
> Meanwhile, the news item does not give me the information I need.  It
> only tells me how to make a new checkout.  I have lots of uncommitted
> changes in my directory, and I don't want to risk losing them.
> 
> You must tell me--and the public--a convenient way of fixing an
> existing checkout so that it continues to work!
> 
> Meanwhile, when you make changes like this, you need to warn people
> before making the change.  What did you do to inform people?