GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118381
inconsistent address to ask for cvs accounts
Last modified: 2005-03-02 07:23:20 UTC
Hmm, I screwed something up when creating this bug :) Here are the details http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html says to send CVS account requests to cvsmaster@gnome.org while http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/requesting.html says to use accounts@gnome.org
Either address works just fine, and they both end up in the same tracking system. I'd fix the account policies doc, but it needs to get approved by the board, and I haven't send them a patch yet.
The tools/cvs.html page also says that it is only necessary to send a message to cvsmaster, whereas the policy document hints that gnome-hackers should be asked first. Christian Rose suggested a link be added from tools/cvs.html to the policy document.
Hmm... why should gnome-hackers be sent with a request for CVS account? That's why we put the References in the mail, right? On the current tools/cvs.html I can't find any information about who to send the information to though. Seems to be issued here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132799
> Hmm... why should gnome-hackers be sent with a request for CVS account? Good point, and I don't know where that comes from. If one reads http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/cvs.html carefully it only mentions gnome-hackers approval for new module requests in CVS, not for any CVS account request. So could we actually read the documents before speculating on what they say?
I think we can close this bug. There does not seem to be any mention of cvsmaster anymore in the tools/cvs.html page. About reading accounts/cvs.html carefully: one of the paragraphs mixes the reasons for obtaining an account with how to request addition of a module. It should probably be rewritten. But we should discuss this on gnome-hackers, not here.
Seconding Ole's motion to close. 4 months ago, tools/cvs.html simply started pointing to the requesting.html page, so this bug is fixed. http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/web-devel-2/content/tools/cvs.html?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 Setting to resolved FIXED.