SunSITE CVS repository

SunSITE CVS repository

[Andrew Main]

As you've seen on zsh-users, SunSITE Denmark have offered to host a CVS
repository of zsh sources.  I'm not personally willing to expend the
effort to keep such a repository in sync with the master sources, but if
anyone else here has the time to spare then it could potentially be of
significant benefit to the zsh community.  Does anyone wish to volunteer?

-zefram

Re: SunSITE CVS repository

[Peter Stephenson]

Andrew Main wrote:
> As you've seen on zsh-users, SunSITE Denmark have offered to host a CVS
> repository of zsh sources.  I'm not personally willing to expend the
> effort to keep such a repository in sync with the master sources, but if
> anyone else here has the time to spare then it could potentially be of
> significant benefit to the zsh community.  Does anyone wish to volunteer?

Looks like nobody replied to this, but if it's simply a question of
committing new versions when they turn up, or adding patches, I could do it.
I'm going to be keeping the FAQ up to date there anyway.  I'll have to
refresh my CVS knowledge.

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Re: SunSITE CVS repository

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

Peter wrote:
> Andrew Main wrote:
> > As you've seen on zsh-users, SunSITE Denmark have offered to host a CVS
> > repository of zsh sources.  I'm not personally willing to expend the
> > effort to keep such a repository in sync with the master sources, but if
> > anyone else here has the time to spare then it could potentially be of
> > significant benefit to the zsh community.  Does anyone wish to volunteer?
> 
> Looks like nobody replied to this, but if it's simply a question of
> committing new versions when they turn up, or adding patches, I could do it.
> I'm going to be keeping the FAQ up to date there anyway.  I'll have to
> refresh my CVS knowledge.

I would think that the purpose of the CVS repository would be to be to
store the authentic source as it would appear in the next release.
This would requite that the coordinator keeps it in sync with his
repository.  Unless Zefram does this himself, how can you be sure that
a patch you check in would show up unmodified in the release?

A centralized CVS master site would also allow multiple `maintainers'
who can directly check in changes they make, but this would be a quite
different development model than the current one.

Zoli

Re: SunSITE CVS repository

[Andrew Main]

Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>I would think that the purpose of the CVS repository would be to be to
>store the authentic source as it would appear in the next release.

Not necessarily.  I've already explained this at least once: a CVS
repository *could* be used for that, but it could also be used merely
to keep track of different versions and patches.

>             Unless Zefram does this himself, how can you be sure that
>a patch you check in would show up unmodified in the release?

Obviously, if a repository is not the master source, then patches still
have to go via zsh-workers.

-zefram

Re: SunSITE CVS repository

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

Zefram wrote:
> Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> >I would think that the purpose of the CVS repository would be to be to
> >store the authentic source as it would appear in the next release.
> 
> Not necessarily.  I've already explained this at least once: a CVS
> repository *could* be used for that, but it could also be used merely
> to keep track of different versions and patches.

And for that I assume you would continue to provide your RCS tree on
the ftp sites.  This can be made visible interactively via a cvs
server, which can be done with an automated script.

Zoli

Re: SunSITE CVS repository

[Greg Badros]

Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> writes:

> Looks like nobody replied to this, but if it's simply a question of
> committing new versions when they turn up, or adding patches, I could do it.
> I'm going to be keeping the FAQ up to date there anyway.  I'll have to
> refresh my CVS knowledge.

Check out my Project Management with RCS and CVS slides -- part of a
series of "ToolsTalks" I gave to other PhD students:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb/ToolsTalks/Project-Management.html

Comments and criticisms are appreciated.

Greg