Retirement of SVN Commitfilter and Legacy Get Hot New Stuff systems

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Sun Jul 30 16:44:31 BST 2017


Nah, it isn't that important. Just subscribe to the commits mailing list
and add some rules to your email client to separate out the various 
repositories is easy enough. _If_ the commit filter were really important,
someone would have maintained it, right? If there's no maintainer, there's
no importance.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Idem for me with digiKam. Commit filter is a main tool used to follow
> all contributors and see if something is badly done with commits. It's
> main rules for open source project with a large amount of code, and a
> lots of coder (as students)
> 
> Please reconsider to revival this important piece of software. It's
> very important...
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2017-07-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> [...]
> >> Due to the age of the system and the limited use of the two services
> >> hosted on the system (with SVN Commitfilter having very limited
> >> application since our migration to Git) we've determined that the best
> >> course of action is to archive both services and shutdown the machine.
> >> [...]
> >
> > I am still using commit-filter to read all diffs for kate.git,
> > syntax-highlighting.git,
> > ktexteditor.git, and some dedicated authors.
> >
> > For me, commit-filter was always a very convenient way of tracking KDE
> > development, and subscribing to some git on phabricator is not good enough
> > for me (I like the current form of generated mails much more).
> >
> > Is the solution to subscribe to all kde-commits at kde.org, and then do the
> > filtering myself, or is there still another way / or any plans to get
> > commit-filter
> > back?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Dominik
> 

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