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[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Reinhard,

The post-* hook there was just Yet Another copy of the original one which 
seemed to be how most of them were made. (In fiddling with this at the CIA-
>KGB changeover I found there were 4 or 5 distinct versions of this script 
on alioth although there were some hundreds of copies of each version.)

> I've noticed the following note in the latest developer news regarding
> our commit messages. I know that we have been using our own custom
> post-receive-email hook, and I wonder if now wouldn't be a good time
> to switch to this multimailhook script?

it would be great to switch over to a centrally managed version of the hook 
script / things it calls. We don't do embedded copies of code in packages 
because it's silly and I'm sure the same applies to multiple copies of hook 
scripts :)

> While we are at it, it seems that this multimail hook makes it easy to
> also send VCS notices to KGB (i.e., IRC announcements) and to the PTS.
> I'd like to enable all of them, but first wanted to check with you
> what to look out for. I've again forgot what exact problems our
> post-commit hook fixed.

The old version of the mailer script called from the hook script could only 
talk to CIA and not to KGB and our current script just deals with that in 
the most expedient way available at the time. If we've now got a good 
solution as opposed to an expedient solution, then switching over is most 
definitely worthwhile. (I recall there was a mess of symlinks and .old or 
.bak versions of these scripts kicking around on alioth too; decrufting is 
most welcome.)

Thanks for looking into this.

cheers
Stuart


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