Re: I must have an answer regarding CVS

[Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal dot net>]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:53, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I must have an answer regarding your CVS checkin policies.  If you
> cannot / will not tell me how contributions become part of the source
> pool, then I am not going to make any contributions.  I will get back to
> my own proprietary development and just consider this a worthwhile but
> failed attempt at coordinating with a particular group of open source
> developers.  Or, resume with projects like Nebula that are bigger and
> more organized for newbies and external contributions.

Assuming that it's a relatively small contribution (less than 100K), you
can probably post it to the list, and then someone who has write access
to CVS will check it in.  If it's something big, you can e-mail it
directly to someone (usually Hans) and get the same result.  Although if
it's something really big, I'd suggest explaining it on the mailing list
before sending it to anyone.

I have never tried to contribute anything larger than 100K at a time,
but e-mail seems to work for small things.

I don't know what the policy for CVS access is (if there is an official
policy), but if you can make a significant contribution (and what you
have been describing sounds significant to me, although I don't use
Windows), I would expect someone to grant you write access to CVS. 


(I didn't respond to your earlier e-mails regarding CVS because, as I
said, I just send contributions via e-mail).