419970 - Create mozilla.dev.static-analysis newsgroup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Discussion Forums, task)

Description

[(dormant account)]

We need a newsgroup to discuss Pork, Dehydra, rewriting and static analysis projects

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Where do such discussions currently happen? Have that outgrown that group, or are they considered offtopic?

Is static-analysis a future-proof name? As in, is it possible or likely that you may end up wanting to talk about runtime code analysis tools (for example)? 

Gerv

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The discussion mainly happens on #mmgc currently. We want a group so that people who are not mozilla hackers (GCC devs, etc) can have a place to discuss tools such as gcc-dehydra.

And yes, the name is future-proof because we're explicitly limiting discussion to static analysis tools. Runtime analysis would be handled elsewhere.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification :-) Reassigning to justdave.

Gerv

Comment 4

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Emailed giganews for group, waiting for confirmation.

Comment 5

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Cody at Giganews ISP Support wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
> 
> This group has been added.  Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.
> 

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I assume this needs to be re-opened, with "waiting for Google" in the Whiteboard. :-) The group does not exist yet on Google Groups.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.static-analysis>

Comment 7

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Dave, shouldn't this have been automatically created?  I see it listed at https://lists.mozilla.org/newsgroups.txt but I'm not sure how to ping Google to read that file.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

check the access logs and see if they've been hitting it recently.  They usually hit it once daily, right about midnight pacific.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

yup.
(google ip) - - [05/Mar/2008:00:02:06 -0800] "GET /newsgroups.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 2621

They're hitting it, so if it was there this morning at midnight, something's broken.

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I mailed Google to find out what's up.

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Has any post been made to the newsgroup yet? I thought Google didn't start showing the group until somebody actually posted to it...

Comment 12

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Looks like the Google Groups is up.

Comment 13

[(dormant account)]

I posted a message to the list yesterday and it still hasn't shown up in the newsgroup.

Comment 14

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I see two messages from you in both the newsgroup and the Google Group.
<news://news.mozilla.org/[e-mail]>
<news://news.mozilla.org/[e-mail]>

You're probably experiencing this <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/msg/7d4dea05b5060a31>.
If you close Thunderbird, and delete the mozilla.dev.static-analysis.msf file from your profile directory, that should fix it.

Comment 15

[(dormant account)]

Message from today actually made it on the newsgroup. Looks like it's working.

Comment 16

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I never heard back from Google, but it looks like it's all there and working now.  The timing on when it started working is in line with when I mailed them so they probably just forgot to reply to say they fixed it.