Since I often seem to play the part of the cheerleader for community building projects, like the CVS and pure-data.org, I thought I'd lay out some of the advantages of maintaining Pd's core in the CVS:
- Automatic ChangeLogs If checkins are commented, then cvs2cl will generate nicely commented ChangeLogs.
- easier for devs to track changes Work like Thomas' wouldn't be interrupted as much by work on the Pd core.
- someone else could handle releases Like me, since I doing this anyway.
- no need for pd test releases Beta testers could just 'cvs checkout' instead.
We have worked out and tested setting up Access Control Lists on the CVS, so that commit/write access could be limited based on branches, etc. Then as a regression testing is implemented, other developers can slowly join in on working on the code. I think everyone involved would gain from moving Pd to CVS.
just my two bits,
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