Re: [Queue-developers] write access to Queue CVS repository

[W. G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

Quoting QingLong <qin...@Bo...>:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:28:04PM -0500, W. G. Krebs wrote:
> >
> > The ways things are currently going, 1.30.2 probably won't see light
> > before  mid-March.
> >
> > One thing that would really help speed up this process
> > if the various patches you and others have submitted to queue-developers,
> > and to the patch manager on www.gnuqueue.org,
> > were merged into the CVS archive.
> [...]
> > Basically, you just download the distribution from cvs,
> > apply the patches (using  patch) and then do a "cvs ci"
> > to put your new version into the archive.
> > Then, you just post a message to "queue-developers"
> > saying you've merged in your  latest patch,
> > and the patched files can be downloaded from the CVS repository.
> >
>    This scheme only works for those who have write-enabled access
>  to the CVS repository. And that's really dangerous to give everybody
>  (who wills) such rights.

I think I can handle it.

It's only a few people who have it at any one time (you're being invited to join 
a carefully selected, elite group :D ), and  the changes made are heavily 
logged. It's easy for me to undo changes, and to see exactly what those changes 
were.

This is how Open Source development works on SourceForge. There's less trust in 
the CVS distribtion than in the real, relased file based. But, users who want 
the latest and greatest can immediately download the latest CVS source, and thus 
development is much faster.