[savannah-help-public] [sr #106712] accepting follow-ups by email

Follow-up Comment #19, sr #106712 (project administration): May I add my voice to those desiring such a feature? It's much easier to reply by writing an email than to use the Savannah web interface. ___ Reply to this item at:

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Follow-up Comment #18, sr #106712 (project administration): Dropping the Savane trackers means migrating all the data and recreate other features such as integrated authentication. We're moving towards distributed bug tracking, which could replace the need for a mail interface (without the spam)

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Follow-up Comment #17, sr #106712 (project administration): Forgot to add: My personal impression is that dropping the Savane trackers should be completely out of the question, and it was never considered, IIRC. Sylvain can tell for sure. Some projects (e.g. GNUstep) actually like them. Implem

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Follow-up Comment #16, sr #106712 (project administration): There is an official debbugs instance (debbugs.gnu.org); all GNU projects are welcome to use it, TTBOMK. It has nothing to do with Savannah, though, and there's no integration at all. ___

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Follow-up Comment #15, sr #106712 (project administration): there is a dupe for this: sr #107431 any chance this will be implemented? actually, it would seen that dropping the integrated savanna bug tracker in favor of a specially designed external tool (bugzilla or debbugs) which would allow bot

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Follow-up Comment #14, sr #106712 (project administration): http://financialtouch.wordpress.com/ http://autocollections.wordpress.com/ http://autosafety.wordpress.com/ http://makeinsurance.wordpress.com/ http://autoengine.wordpress.com/ http://moneyinvestor.wordpress.com/ http://techspecial.wordp

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Follow-up Comment #13, sr #106712 (project administration): > Do you think that the instant handling of messages is a mandatory feature? I think every few minutes would be ok, though not ideal. At any rate, I'm afraid I have no clue how to implement anything like this in php. So if we can't se

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Follow-up Comment #12, sr #106712 (project administration): Karl, i have no idea of how the cgi call could be done to perform the instant handling of messages. The only solution that comes to my mind is the deferred message handling mentioned earlier, a php script running on the website every x m

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Follow-up Comment #11, sr #106712 (project administration): I realized last night that savannah doesn't handle incoming mail locally, as far as I know. So I don't see how the mail handling and web application can run on the same host? If we can do the separation, we could make an alias on fence

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Follow-up Comment #10, sr #106712 (project administration): Karl -- i think that if both the program that handles the messages and the web application run in the same host there wouldn't be any problem in creating an adhoc php session and deleting it after the fake post. For this to be done easil

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Follow-up Comment #9, sr #106712 (project administration): Thomas -- I don't see a problem with requiring logged-in users to post or follow up. In fact, I think that should be the default. There is no requirement in GNU that projects use a tracker at all, and lots don't. OTOH, there is a requi

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Follow-up Comment #8, sr #106712 (project administration): Federico -- the idea of doing a POST as if it were done through the web site sounds good. If we can somehow fake the session information it presumably is going to be looking for. I'm not sure it needs to be a cron job and deal with pop.

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Follow-up Comment #7, sr #106712 (project administration): For the the server-side part i believe that one possible implementation could be the following: 1.- Set up a cronjob, following the structure of the ones currently running, that connects to the receiving email account using a regular perl

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Follow-up Comment #6, sr #106712 (project administration): Karl: But only allowing logged-in users to post follow-ups, wouldn't that be contradictionary to allowing non-subscribers post to GNU mailing lists -- or could we perhaps draw the analogy there, and send unauthenticated posts (stemming no

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Follow-up Comment #5, sr #106712 (project administration): To the best of my knowledge, it is possible to configure trackers such that only logged-in users can post or follow-up. At least I sure remember doing this for my projects. I hope that is even the default now. Perhaps an X-Savane-User

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Follow-up Comment #4, sr #106712 (project administration): On second thought, why there is a need for authentication at all? As it stands now, anonymous users can open bugs/tasks and can follow-up. The "only" thing that needs to be done is to craft all mail from the trackers to have a Reply-To:

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Follow-up Comment #3, sr #106712 (project administration): I second this wishlist request -- the web-based trackers is something I dislike in Savannah. I have the feeling that the implementation would be far from trivial. FTR, debbugs has no authentication. Everyone can send messages and can m

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Follow-up Comment #2, sr #106712 (project administration): Right, we could devise some reasonable format for the messages and I guess that would exclude the spam. We don't need nearly all the bells and whistles that debbugs has -- it would be very useful just to be able to send a reply, like "Po

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Follow-up Comment #1, sr #106712 (project administration): Hi, I have always found this very interesting (sending a mail with instructions to one machine), but probably i don't have the required skills to accomplish it either ;) Anyway we could think about the requirements of the application. F

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URL: Summary: accepting follow-ups by email Project: Savannah Administration Submitted by: karl Submitted on: Mon 06 Apr 2009 01:58:46 PM PDT Category: Trackers (bugs, support, ta