[Backalaika-developers] For the new developers

[Nando F. <nan...@ma...>]

Fabio Piemontesi from South Africa, Ian Mills from Canada, Choube Mehul 
from India, Jean Milne from England, Dmitry Melanchenko from Ukraine, 
meet our new developer, Prasanna Srinivasan from Hyderabad, India 
(GMT+5:30).

First a little change history for everyone:
- Backup temporary extension = .zip.tmp
- Erase empty ZIP file if there was nothing to back up at this time
- Word "additive" replaced by "incremental" everywhere. This broke 
profile compatibility, but is definitive.


New developers,

I just added all of you to the project so everyone has CVS write access. 
To tell you the truth, I was more inclined to wait for a little code 
contribution and evaluate it before adding you to the project. But since 
Prasanna is having problems with anonymous CVS access...

In order to check out the latest code snapshot from CVS, a Backalaika 
developer needs 2 variables: CVSROOT and the module name. CVSROOT is
============================================
:ext:USE...@cv...:/cvsroot/backalaika
============================================
where USERNAME is your SourceForge.net login.
Inside this there is a module (a subfolder) which contains our files. 
The module is called: v01
Also, anyone can download the code as "anonymous" with :pserver: 
authentication:
:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/backalaika


Prasanna,

0) Don't worry about module names not being autodiscovered by your CVS 
client. This is normal in sourceforge AFAIK.
1) But from your error message I think you have a network problem, not a 
CVS problem. Please check your firewalls or reinstall your CVS client (I 
remember after installation you used it before rebooting...)
2) I don't see the module name "v01" in your CVS command.
3) You could try as "anonymous" instead of as "venkii_s".
4) Anyway you must be able to connect as a project developer now, with 
:ext: authentication.

Prasanna Srinivasan wrote:
> I am not sure what is wrong with my Box or network.
> But still i am not able to access the CVS. I am
> attaching the errors so that you can suggest. I am
> feeling bad, since this should become a stupid cause
> for not participating in your project.
> 
> regards
> Prasanna
> 
> In C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "-Q" "co" "-c"
> CVSROOT=:pserver:ven...@cv...:/cvsroot/backalaika
> 
> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.sf.net:2401 failed: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. 
> 
> Error, CVS operation failed