On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:12:38PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Sorry, that was directed at those working closely with WNPP. (Hi Joy).
Yeah :) > > I wanted to know if I can port the existing "orphaned packages" list > > into the QA database without reuploads. > > Yes of course : > echo "orphan name_of_orphaned_package" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] That'd be something like: for i in `grep ^O *.dat | cut -f3`; do echo orphan $i | mail -s "package $i orphaned in WNPP" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; done Executed from the wnpp/data directory... > > Raw traffic to the @control bot, for learning in realtime instead of > > polling a web site. > > Should I ask for the creation of such a mailing list ? Once it is created > I can easily add the list in the different aliases ... Yes, several of them should be created, depending on what people need. I think all mails (or their result or something) which create a new task should be sent to this, debian-qa list. What other interesting stuff can be done with QA bot, for which the debian-qa-dist list should be used? Taking a task and marking task as finished comes to mind... anything else? -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name