lvu submit changed - now uses HTTP POST to deliver patch

[Kok, Auke]

Duncan Gibson wrote:
>> I have rewritten the `lvu submit` code to use curl and pass the data
>> through a HTTP POST method back to the lunar-developers. This means
>> that you no longer have to setup sendmail to use lvu submit. Neither
>> do you have to be subscribed to the lunar mailinglists.
>> ...
>> I am currently working on a quick-n-dirty method to quickly review the
>> submitted patches from the server, but basically this should be fairly
>> easy since we're passing entire patch files to the server at submit
>> time, so I encourage everyone to use lvu submit more.
> 
> Auke, do you envisage some gateway to the mailing lists so that other
> users can see/discuss submissions, and not just the devs? With the old
> submission system, other users could use the new/updated modules in their
> zlocals even if the devs didn't accept the submission. Although we will
> probably never know whether this actually happened in practice.
> 
> And will there be automatic 'accepted' or 'rejected' emails to the
> original submitter? I really appreciate the 'Thank you' messages from
> Florin and Dennis because they let me know that I can remove my zlocal
> copy when I next update my moonbase. And it's a big kick :-)

currently the script notifies the user both when the patch got accepted or 
rejected. The script can also defer acceptance in which case it'll just sit 
longer in the queue.

I hope to add some stuff to it that will either throw a summary out (to 
lunar-dev) for the current queue if there are items older than 24h in it, or 
post a weekly queue summary somehow.

However, my goal is to review the queue on a daily basis at least and get 
feedback returned within such a time frame. How I'll do the above items I just 
don't know yet.

Auke