Re: Public Nmap SVN Repository

[Jonathan Smith <smithj () rpath com>]

William McVey wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 02:20 -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> > * A mailing list (nmap-commits or something) will be set up, to which
> >   commit notifications (with diffs inline) will be sent, through a
> >   post-commit hook.
>
> You want to be careful about flooding out too much information such that
> subscribers end up not reading it. I've generally taken the approach
> that people are interested in 'what' changed, not how. So sending out
> just the log notes (and demanding contributors to use good commit log
> messages). If people want to know how a particular change was
> implemented, they can always do a 'svn diff'.  I also generally will
> queue up my set of changes and just mail out one daily email of the svn
> logs for that day, if there are any (launched from cron). 

Commitmail is a very useful tool to track changes to code you care
about. Simply saying "added foo feature" doesn't say what code it
affects. You may not care about foo feature, but you may care about a
function modified to make foo work. If you are scared away by diffs,
then either only read the commit message (displayed at the *top* of the
email) or don't subscribe.

-smithj


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