Submit list for new spells

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> 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.

Agreed.
 
> 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 thought that was the protocol anyways...perhaps we should add that to the 
Guru
Handbook? Also all unmaintained sections' e-mails go to the Grimoire Lead, so
someone sees them. :)

> 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?

A script could parse the e-mail and grab the pertinent information, then use
Sorcery commands to find out what section it should go in and pass it all to
add_bug.

-sandalle

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