Anyone/anything still using CVS on gcc.gnu.org?

Mon Jul 21 18:51:00 GMT 2008

From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
> Hear, hear. The name of the list is an arbitrary label, not instructions
> on what kind of client to use to access the repository; why, just for the
> sake of making it "correct" in some non-functional sense of the word
> should
> everyone in the world have to adjust their
> whitelists/forwards/spamfilters/webarchives/etc.?
>> There should be a fairly clear benefit before asking all those people to
> do all that work.

Jeez, I didn't realize people felt so viscerally against this. I thought
the impact on users would be small. I.e. I'm curious who actually
subscribes to the gcc-cvs list. Is it a large list? (I don't know.)
I don't think humans post to it either, it only gets machine generated
messages from checkins. So it's not like address books would have to be
updated. (Personally I only access it from the website if I'm looking for
something specific). But seems like you think I'm wrong on how difficult
this change would be for users.
Okay, no big deal. A comment on the webpage I mentioned could be another
way to address my point about the name being misleading...