[Savannah-cvs] [332] MailingListsInternals: minor rephrasing and clarifications

[assafgordon]

Revision: 332
          
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=332
Author:   agn
Date:     2017-04-18 20:44:28 -0400 (Tue, 18 Apr 2017)
Log Message:
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MailingListsInternals: minor rephrasing and clarifications

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/MailingListsInternals.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/MailingListsInternals.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/MailingListsInternals.mdwn      2017-04-18 04:50:30 UTC (rev 
331)
+++ trunk/sviki/MailingListsInternals.mdwn      2017-04-19 00:44:28 UTC (rev 
332)
@@ -24,15 +24,18 @@
 
 The general workflow is as follows:
 
-1. A project admin on savannah creates a new mailing list.
-2. Mailing list information is updated in the `mail_group_list` table
-   in the `savane` MySQL database.
-3. A cronjob on `mgt0` reads the `mail_group_list` table and determines
+1. A project admin on savannah creates a new mailing list on the savannah
+   website.
+2. The PHP frontend code updates the Mailing list information in the
+   `mail_group_list` table in the `savane` MySQL database.
+3. A cronjob on 'mgt0` reads the `mail_group_list` table and determines
    which operations are needed (e.g. list-creation, password-reset).
 4. The cronjob runs local scripts (on mgt0) for each operation.
 5. Each script proxies the commands over SSH to `lists.gnu.org`
-6. The script `scannah_wrapper.pl` on `lists.gnu.org` processes the commands
+6. On `lists.gnu.org`, The script `scannah_wrapper.pl` processes the commands
    and runs the appropriate Mailman scripts locally on `lists.gnu.org`.
+7. The cronjob script (back on `mgt0`) sends email notification to the
+   project admins (e.g. notification about updated passwords).
 
 
 
@@ -264,8 +267,9 @@
 Manual walk-through example - changing password
 -----------------------------------------------
 
-When a project-admin on savannah requests password-reset
-on their mailing list, the `password` field is set to `1`.
+When a project-admin on the savannah website requests password-reset
+for their mailing list, the PHP frontend code sets the corresponding
+`password` field in the `mail_group_list` table to `1`.
 Equivalent command:
 
     $ mysql savane