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FS#12028 - Include author name in Arch Announce mails from News

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Maximilian Müller (kakTuZ) - Friday, 07 November 2008, 10:18 GMT
Last edited by Dusty Phillips (Dusty) - Monday, 13 July 2009, 19:06 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Dusty Phillips (Dusty)
Simo Leone (neotuli)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Mails that come over the arch announce mailing list, that are generated from Website news entries, does not include the name of the author.
The name can easily be retrieved by clicking the link to the news entry, but it would be convenient to have the name included in the the mail.

Additional info:
- observed with the mail "[arch-announce] pkgstats: contribution was never that easy" from date Fri, 07. Nov 2008 03:01:18 +0000
- Sender of the mails is "Recent News Updates <announce@archlinux.org>"
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Closed by  Dusty Phillips (Dusty)
Monday, 13 July 2009, 19:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  I applied the patch given to include the name in the feed body.
Comment by Dusty Phillips (Dusty) - Sunday, 12 April 2009, 14:38 GMT
Tagged Dan in for his knowledge of everything. I don't actually know how these e-mails are generated; is it a cron script or some event-driven system. I can't find anything in the news code that is sparking an event so I'm assuming its a cron-induced poll.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 12 April 2009, 14:56 GMT
/etc/cron.hourly/rss2email? But I know nothing about this.
Comment by Maximilian Müller (kakTuZ) - Sunday, 12 April 2009, 19:11 GMT
The rss feed does not include the author name either. I have searched the arch projects repositories and found the template for the feed content in archweb_pub.git.
I have attached a very simple fix, but can not no guarantee anything ;-)
   nameinfeed.patch (0.3 KiB)

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