Re: cygport: 'announce' feature branch

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>]

On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 09:57 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  3 02:06, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > I just created a new 'announce' feature branch in cygport git:
> > 
> > https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/tree/announce
> > 
> > The new 'announce' command generates an announcement template from
> > the .cygport file based on NAME/VERSION/RELEASE, PKG_NAMES, and
> > DESCRIPTION, to which you can easily add release-specific information,
> > and then sends the message via an SMTP server.  Note that this adds
> > dependencies on perl-Authen-SASL, perl-MIME-tools, and
> > perl-Net-SMTP-SSL, and requires several new SMTP_* configuration options
> > in cygport.conf.
> > 
> > Feedback and patches welcome.
> 
> Sounds cool.  Do you have an example how to configure and use it?

The new settings are all documented in data/cygport.conf, and are
similar in concept to the sendemail.from and sendemail.stmp* settings in
git; if you have git send-email working then this should be
straight-forward.  Just be sure to 0600 your file if you store an
SMTP_PASS (as mentioned in the documentation).

Once configured, run 'cygport NAME.cygport announce' and it will open a
template email in mbox format in $EDITOR; add any release-specific
information, exit the editor normally, and the email is sent.

What this does need still is robustness; e.g. being able to cancel
sending the announcement, or dealing with a misformed mbox caused by
poor editing.  The ability to automatically add a signature may also be
desirable.

As for the results, my announcements from last night starting from gmic
on were all generated by cygport announce.

--
Yaakov