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Re: disallowing intial high-priority PRs
From: |
Milan Zamazal |
Subject: |
Re: disallowing intial high-priority PRs |
Date: |
24 Jun 2001 17:33:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.103 |
>>>>> "PE" == Phil Edwards <address@hidden> writes:
PE> I've been informally requested to look into disallowing random
PE> anonymous submitters from sending in PRs with the priority set
PE> to 'high'. There's a local policy that only the project
PE> maintainers have authority to set 'high' priority (and thus
PE> steering the actions of a lot of people), and an annoying number
PE> of the PRs showing up are from well-meaning people who feel
PE> their specific problem is really really important. (It is to
PE> /them/ but...)
PE> Anyhow, I spewed out this hack. Am I headed in the right
PE> direction? (The problem with testing it is that the only gnatsd
PE> server available to me is the one I'd eventually be modifying,
PE> i.e., no spare servers.)
Thanks, Phil, for your suggestion. However so that the patch was really
useful, the following things must be ensured:
- It's not worth to bother with GNATS 3.113, it's not developed anymore.
The current development tree is GNATS 4 in CVS. It's a major rewrite
so it's usually not possible to apply GNATS 3.113 patches into GNATS 4.
See http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/ for information how to access
GNATS' CVS.
- The feature mustn't be hard-wired. Your improvement is useful to you
and I'm sure it would be useful to other people as well, but not to
everyone. If you think about such an improvement, I'd start with
thinking about an appropriate configuration option in `dbconfig'
(present only in GNATS 4).
BTW, if you need to test your changes on a running server, you can
configure GNATS for installation in a totally different directory and
test it there. You can also configure it to connect to a gnatsd on a
different port than the default one or you can run gnatsd manually from
a command line.
Regards,
Milan Zamazal
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