On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Markus Neteler wrote:<br>
> > > [please respond in trac, grass-dev cannot post to trac]<br>
> ><br>
> > Actually, I'd really prefer it if we could keep discussions on the<br>
> > mailing list. trac can be updated when issues get resolved.<br>
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> The issue is (here) that eg Even Rouault (GDAL developer) who responded to<br>
> the DBF ticket AFAIK does not read the grass-dev list,<br>
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</div>There is an archive:<br>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/</a></blockquote><div><br>I know, I have maintained it for 10 years meanwhile.<br>The point is that non-subscribers won't detect postings there<br>
without being pointed to them.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/" target="_blank"></a><div class="Ih2E3d">
> likewise FrankW likely prefers tickets over scattered discussion in our archive.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>We cannot expect people like him who follow 10+ projects in parallel<br>to voluntarily scan our archive.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Would it be possible for trac to automatically add a link for the<br>
mailing-list thread to the ticket?</blockquote><div><br>In theory yes:<br><a href="http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/EmailtoTracScript">http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/EmailtoTracScript</a><br><br>So far, I could not convince Frank to install it.<br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> > Right now, my grass-dev folder consists mostly of posts by "GRASS<br>
> > GIS", with no threading.<br>
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> We can rename it to "GRASS trac" easily (in Admin). Makes more sense.<br>
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</div><br>The point is that it doesn't tell you who actually posted the message.<br>
This makes it awkward to find a particular message in a long thread.</blockquote><div><br>OK, now I get the point.<br><br>We have to check<br> <a href="http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/macro">http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/macro</a><br>
<a href="http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/patch">http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/patch</a><br> <a href="http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/plugin">http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/plugin</a><br>for a solution. We may not be the first to have this wish.<br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> For me threading works. The headers contain the relevant tags:<br><br>All responses are treated as replies to the original report, rather<br>
than as a reply to a specific message</blockquote><div> <br>OK, the same need to check trac modifications for a solution.<br><br>Markus<br></div></div>