[Pkg-octave-devel] Changes in Alioth commits

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 05 août 2013 à 23:47 +0200, Thomas Weber a écrit :

> you might have noticed that the layout and content of the commit
> messages sent by Alioth have changed. This is due to a change on Alioth
> itself and a change to the underlying script. Details can be found at
> https://raphaelhertzog.com/2013/08/02/my-free-software-activities-in-july-2013/ (Misc Debian work)
> and 
> https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail
> 
> The main change concerning me right now is that the From address of the
> mails has changed. It used to be the committer's address and is now 
> 	username at alioth.debian.org
> which means that I have to manually accept all commit messages for the
> mailing list (these addresses are not subscribed for obvious reasons).
> As you can see in the comments of the above blog post, I already asked
> Raphael about it; for the time being, there is no easy solution (I do
> not intend to hack the script for the time being).

I think an easy workaround is to whitelist the alioth email addresses by
adding them to the "sender filters" of Mailman (under the section
"Privacy options" of the configuration interface). 

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