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Re: request: set bugtraq: properties on the svn folder

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: 2007-09-24 00:59:42 CEST

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While checking the log of the svn trunk I noticed that TSVN successfully
>> parsed some log messages and extracted issue numbers. Of course, the
>> links didn't work because they pointed to the TSVN issue tracker (the
>> reason for this is that TSVN has those properties set, Subversion
>> doesn't, and the properties are searched upwards in the directory tree).
>>
>> Anyway: I'd like to ask if it would be possible to add the following
>> properties to at least the /trunk folder of Subversion:
>>
>> propname: bugtraq:logregex
> ...
>> propname: bugtraq:url
>
>
> OOI, what was the reasoning behind choosing "bugtraq" as a prefix?
>
> TTBOMK, "Bugtraq" is a security-related mailing list, and has nothing to
> do with issue tracking.
>
> I don't feel terribly comfortable borrowing the name of another
> computing-related entity like this, especially when we are trying to
> request that people only use the name "Subversion" in reasonable ways.

Ditto on that feeling, but I think bugtraq has been used for a long time in
TSVN, so it may not be easy to change it.

Blair

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