pre patch, input wanted automatic NNTP group

[Jon Bendtsen <jb...@laerdal.dk>]

Hi guys

I would like some input before i start coding. I have 2 options that i  
am looking at coding.
They are written like that because i have written the  
mailer.conf.example first.
input is wanted.


# group pre and postfix is a text string which is pre or appended
# to the group usually derived from the auto_to_group feature.
# group_prefix = svn
# group_postfix = .svn
# the pre and/or postfix may or may not include a .
# there is no check that tests if the pre/postfix is a valid NNTP  
groupname
# so a wrong pre/postfix may lead to crashes


# Automatically detect the group to post to based on name+branch/trunk
# the branchname field is also removed.
# Tags are totally ignored and the result if the path contains /tags/
# is at the time of writting this undefined and unknown.
#
# the auto_to_group configoption has only 3 valid definitions, see
# below, any other input will be treated as if the value is undefined.
# Only one of them can be defined at any given time, specifying more
# is undefined and the result is unknown. There is no default value.
#
# configoption                  path            group
# auto_to_group = aspath        /name/trunk     name.trunk
# auto_to_group = aspath        /trunk/name     trunk.name
# auto_to_group = reverse       /name/trunk     trunk.name
# auto_to_group = reverse       /trunk/name     name.trunk
# auto_to_group = single        /trunk/name     name
# auto_to_group = single        /name/trunk     name
#
# aspath means that the group order will be just as the path
#
# reverse means that the order is reverse from the path
#
# single means that special words like trunk, branches and tags +
# branchname/number and tagname/number are removed from the path
# and only the first non special pathfield is used as the name.
#
# lets see some more examples with branches:
#
# auto_to_group = aspath
# ----------------------
# path                          group
# /name/branches/branchname     name.branchname
# /branches/branchname/name     branchname.name
#
# auto_to_group = reverse
# -----------------------
# path                          group
# /name/branches/branchname     branchname.name
# /branches/branchname/name     name.branchname
#
# auto_to_group = single
# ----------------------
# path                          group
# /name/branches/branchname     name
# /branches/branchname/name     name
#
# auto_to_group works by detecting the 3 special words, trunk,  
branches and tags
# in position /field1/ or /.*/field2/
# if the word branches or tags is detected, then the script knows that  
the next
# field is the branchname/tagname and ignores it.
#
# auto_to_group = aspath

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