Collaboration

Diomidis Spinellis
Department of Management Science and Technology
Athens University of Economics and Business
Athens, Greece
dds@aueb.gr

Mailing Lists

VCS Notifications

Example Notification

Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:24:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill Makefile
X-FreeBSD-CVS-Branch: HEAD

yar         2006-08-19 08:24:01 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    usr.bin/pkill        Makefile
  Log:
  Install pkill(1), aka pgrep(1), to /bin so that rc scripts
  can use this small and nifty utility.  Create compatibility
  symlinks from /usr/bin for the time being to avoid breaking
  custom scripts relying on the hardcoded path to the utility.

  Idea by:        des
  Discussed with: brooks (in cvs-src and cvs-all)

  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.6       +5 -0      src/usr.bin/pkill/Makefile

Setting up CVS Notifications

Example:
#!/bin/sh

(
        id -P |
        awk -F: '{
                print $1 " (" gensub(",.*", "", "", $8) ")\t" strftime("%F %R:%S %z (%Z)")
        }
        END {
                print "\nRepository: '"$2"'\n"
        }'
        echo "Directory: $1"
        egrep -v '^In directory|^Update of'
) | mail -s "[$2] cvs commit $1" $3

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Issue Tracking

Issue Reports

Track bugs according to:

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Bugzilla screen dump

Severity of a Bug

Blocker Blocks development or testing work (e.g. a build)
Critical Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak
Major major functionality problem
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Trivial Cosmetic problem
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An Issue's Lifecycle

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Resolution Options

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