Re: Patch to add libstdc++ lists to lists.html

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> Gosh, this is nearly exactly what I already had on my disk. :-/ Yes,
> that's fine except the following:

I did volunteer to clean up hostname references once the lists were
working on gcc.gnu.org, moving the contents of mail.html was a necessary
first step....

[ It also got rid of a reference to "three main mailing lists" followed by
a list of two. ]

> > If this is approved, I'll produce a patch to get rid of
> > libstdc++/mail.html (adjusting links and making it redirect to
> > lists.html)
>
> Go ahead and install that as well.

Patch installed and appended below.

> Please don't submit these PRs. Those that can really address such issues
> just don't check our GNATS database and they end being automatically
> assigned to me. =:-O
>
> In this case, please report the problems to overseers@gcc.gnu.org.

Another issue that shouldn't need overseers - but which I'm not going to
look at myself right now - is that the procmail instructions are out of
date for the many mailing lists, some prefixed libstdc++ rather than gcc,
that the project now has.  Also, the instructions to send blank mails to
listname-help hardly account for the fact that gcc-help is a real list
read by people rather than an autoresponder address (unless, that is,
ezmlm will send the help information in response to blank mails and
forward to humans for non-blank ones).

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/libstdc++/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	2000/11/29 21:13:54	1.11
+++ ChangeLog	2000/12/01 23:45:11
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2000-12-01  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
+
+	* mail.html: Remove; lists now on mail GCC lists page.
+	* .htaccess: New; redirect /libstdc++/mail.html to
+	http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html.
+	* header.ihtml: Link to ../lists.html instead of mail.html.
+
 2000-11-29  Phil Edwards  <pme@sources.redhat.com>

 	* index.html:  Rather than overloading one machine, point the
Index: header.ihtml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/libstdc++/header.ihtml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 header.ihtml
--- header.ihtml	2000/11/17 23:29:24	1.5
+++ header.ihtml	2000/12/01 23:45:11
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <A HREF="download.html">Downloading</A><BR>
     <A HREF="faq/index.html">FAQ</A> (<A HREF="faq/index.txt">text</A>)<BR>
     <A HREF="documentation.html">Documentation</A><BR>
-    <A HREF="mail.html">Mailing Lists</A><BR>
+    <A HREF="../lists.html">Mailing Lists</A><BR>
     <A HREF="thanks.html">Contributors</A><BR>
     <A HREF="links.html">Links</A><BR>
     </TD></TR>
--- /dev/null	Fri Sep 11 11:31:59 1998
+++ .htaccess	Fri Dec  1 23:43:27 2000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Redirect permanent /libstdc++/mail.html http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk