> I like to think I'm a lazy person. Usually I'm always thinking: how can I > make my work easier. I'm that kind of person that would work a little bit > more in the beginning to work less latter. Welcome. Laziness is an important driving force IMHO :-) > After the completely open and objective-less sentence above, I have a few > suggestions to help with my lazy way of life: > > 1 - Everyday when I get to my office I go to zresearch's FTP server to check > if there is a new version of GlusterFS available. It would help a lot if > there was an announcement of some kind everytime a new release was made done > (through gluster-devel or any other list). What do you think? Still about > new versions, because there isn't a changelog, how do I know witch TLA > corresponds to witch version? If you get the tgz's timestamp you can check > the TLA changelog time and guess, but it is too much work... What do you > think? There have been requests for adding a reference to the tla revision before. And, indeed, what I'm doing here is exactly what you describe, only that I use wget -m to automatically mirror the tree, and look for newer releases of glusterfs and fuse which I haven't yet seen before (and Debianized) > 2 - Every time I answer something to the list I have to change the recipient > of the message to gluster-devel@... . Usually I don't and I have to send the > message twice. What do you think about making it automatically? Well, this > is only good if the cases where you want you answer to the list outweigh > those where you want to send your answer to the sender only. I'm with the > first. Dunno about everybody else. There's an almost religious war whether mailing lists should set their Reply-To: to the list address or leave what the author put in. Cheers, Steffen
