Submit list for new spells

[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 12:48 pm, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I believe that if we somehow put the listing of spells
> (http://codex.sourcemage.org/listing.html) on a wiki page, this page
> would be the best place to have a warning that new versions are
> available. Having this in Bugzilla will simply pollute the database,
> because most of it would become version updates.

I don't think that would be moving us into the position of a better 
maintained 
distribution.  First, moving the listing.html to a Wiki page does not improve 
the situation.  There is still a static list, except that it now has to be 
checked /and/ updated manually.  Might as well just use listing.html (which 
is at least generated automatically whenever the grimoire tar files are 
updated) and save the extra effort.

Second, with a flat file like the Wiki page, there is no indication what is 
being done, or that anything is being done.  I realized that with the mail 
list subscriptions.  When a new announcement comes in, no one has any idea 
that anything is being done with it.  Unless we adopt a policy where anyone 
choosing to update a spell then needs to send an e-mail to the list informing 
everyone of that fact, and then send another letting everyone know that it 
was done.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that why we use Bugzilla?  The 
main problem I see with using Bugzilla instead of the mail list is that if 
the e-mail is going to an unmaintained section, no one will see the 
announcement.

I'm not even sure we can convert a FreshMeat or SourceForge announcement into 
a Bugzilla bug.  Maybe we just need to adopt and establish some guide lines 
for doing updates through the mail list?

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