Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Randall R Schulz cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [PATCH] Re: Improving List Archive Searching In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021015100200.02f9c928@pop3.cris.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-1691952160-1034955018=:6818" ---559023410-1691952160-1034955018=:6818 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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. 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