[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Jitterbug -> RT

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:23:14AM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:07:06PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:55:28PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > 
> > > Today Jitterbug went offline. The new entries (4) since the Great
> > > Conversion (27 Oct) are now also in RT. So don't be suprised if you
> > > get errors if you use the old Jitterbug URL from your bookmarks. The
> > > new issues tracking software is RT and is hosted at
> > > rt.freeciv.org. After logging in there is a manual link in the top bar
> > > where you can read about RT.
> > 
> > Also with RT there is excuse to use ftp.freeciv.org/incoming since RT
> > will accept attachments till 10mb. And remember than
> > ftp.freeciv.org/incoming gets cleaned up at some points and than your
> > nice patch is lost. Same for savegames which show a bug.
> 
> wo up here. Don't be sending huge attachments to RT via email since they
> will be CC'ed to freeciv-dev. If you need to do this, go to the
> web interface and attach it to a 'comment' which is not sent to the list.

This is not good.  If you are going to impose special policies like this
there must be a webpage clearly explaining them.

We need tio update the website anyway.
And make the old Jitterbug URLs work again.

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Reinier