How to subscribe to this mailing list

[Jens Seidel]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:18PM -0800, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to subscribe without getting a Novell login (which
> > > > requires all information including address, ...)?
> > >
> > > Maybe try
> > > mailto:tellico-users-request at forge.novell.com?subject=subscribe -
> > > that
> > > is what the mailman headers suggest...
> >
> > thanks for this hint. It worked indeed without getting an account.
> 
> I wasn't aware of that either. Good to know.

I noticed that you explained this at
http://periapsis.org/tellico/maillist.php, great!
 
> Incidently, I've thought about trying to host the svn and maillist myself. 

It would be possible to improve a few thinks this way. But what happens
if you vanish? Not everyone makes a svn dump to be prepared for such
situations ...

I know that SourceForge uses more and more commercial tools (database,
...) but apart from this I think it is sufficiently free. Debian's
Alioth project (alioth.debian.org) is completely free but probably
restricted to Debian specific stuff. I don't know other project hosting
sites well.

> Which would include a bug tracker. Does anyone have any comments about 
> trac? http://trac.edgewall.org It seems to be a nice combination of 

I installed it once for testing purposes but have only very very
restricted experiences with it. Please ensure that viewing (and maybe
also filing) bugs works without account.

> wiki/svn/bug tracker. Bugzilla seeems a bit like overkill. Launchpad, I 

Right. It always complicated to fill the many fields in a Bugzilla
system.

> just don't want to touch. Any other suggestions?

I really like Debian's email interface. I do not have to fight with 10-15
parameters, I just specifiy the package name, the version and maybe a few
flags and send this mail. I do not recomment using it, but a simple
email interface beside a web frontend would be nice.

Jens