[E-Lang] Announcing 0.8.9.1: The Bug Fix Branch Release

[Ben Laurie]

Marc Stiegler wrote:
> 
> > > I guess I will bring it up again.  Where is anoncvs?  Are there any
> plans for
> > > this?  I guess the geek in me views any project that doesn't have an
> open CVS as
> > > vaporware :(
> >
> > Not to be contentious but I consider a working product that has many many
> > thousands of lines of code behind it to not be vaporware.
> >
> > I'm not an official E spokesperson but I've seen some of the development
> > process firsthand and I asked mark this question once when he was at
> > my house, patching code and updating it to his CVS tree, and his answer
> > was basically "Being the only person who's currently expressing interest
> > in actually writing code for the language, I need to focus my efforts
> > on actually building the product and not peripheral things as putting
> > up an anoncvs tree." (that's some very heavy paraphrasing there, I'm
> > sure MarkM will clear up any of my misstatements.)
> 
> We do have 3/4 people who make occasional contributions to E, which markm
> folds into the system quite painlessly as nearly as I can tell. I'm sure
> markm would be delighted to fold in other good contributions from other
> people. I would  like to extend steve's observation on this matter, and
> propose that, if people made enough contributions to the code base by email
> so that the current process started to break, then that would be the moment
> at which it would be cost-effective (in terms of markm's time) to put up
> anoncvs.
> 
> Or, is it possible for someone else to put up an anoncvs for E? This would
> be a good and proper contribution to the project if it could be exported
> like this :-)

Anoncvs needs to be served from the same repository as CVS, to minimise
dicking around. But don't I remember that it is, in fact, Jon Shapiro
that does CVS for E, so I don't see why this costs Mark any time at all!

Also, BTW, the CVS server is capable of mailing commits, but ISTR Mark
declined that facility (also an important one for projects that want to
involve community, IMO).

Cheers,

Ben.

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