Re: Ports Submission Tracking for February

>Jose Nazario on 28/2/2003 wrote the bit with this mark:

>tree is closed but ... i'll chime in anyhow, this may be useful.

reports and comments on ports are always welcome, regardless of tree status!

>liam, two questions:

Never. The entries will only be withdrawn if I asked specifically to remove them by:
a) the submitter, or
b) a ports committer who gives me a good reason to remove them.

>- how can we submit so you track this cleanly, ie subject lines and
such

Your submissions are absolutely perfect and go through my perl and php scripts without a glitch.

Others can use your submissions as an example of how easy it really is to submit something that is easy to read and understand for all concerned, hint, hint, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, eh eh eh?

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Some things that break my scripts include:

inclusion of punctuation strings like #,$,%,& tend to break the rss validator that I use

lack of proper sig line: "-- ", note the space after the two --, this can cause sigs to be included in "description" text. Pain in the butt for me.

placing the fetch location after the project URL is anoying. Scripts aren't smart and they don't know which URL to use, so I have to intervene if there is more than one URL per message.

putting more than one port in a single message means that only the first port gets put on the list automatically, the others I have to watch for.

I'm working on a script to properly parse out inline patches.

Attachment file names are not always coming across nicely with p5-MIME-Tols and I haven't figured that one out yet.

anyway,

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http://infomatrix.ca/submit.php

contains my latest thoughts on the whole messy issue.

Thanks for asking.

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