[Mailman-Developers] Plea for Help

[Victoriano Giralt]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> 
> >>>>> "SR" == Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com> writes:
> 
>     SR> However, I have been thinking that it might be interesting to
>     SR> have a secondary CVS repository where changes could be made
[snip]
> 
> Another possibility is using BitKeeper as our revision control
> system.  Please check out www.bitkeeper.com -- they have some very
> 
[snip]
> There are three downsides as I see it:
> 
> 1) BitKeeper is not free software, and Mailman's a GNU project, so
For me, absolute NO-NO
[snip]
> 
> 2) We have no experience with BitKeeper so our infrastructure isn't
>    set up for it.  Does it integrate with Emacs?  Can we easily suck
[snip]
> 3) Those who want to contribute will have to learn YASCCS.
[snip]

My answer to point 3 is absolutely not. I'm trying to standardize CVS for
all our inhouse development, at the very least for my own team and the
teams in my area, and outside I'm the strongest proponent-evangelist of
free software, so I'm not going to propose or spend a bit of effort on a
proprietary product, once we are in the road to learn CVS.

I'm not a CVS guru (yet :) ;), but I think it would be to difficult to set
up a mechanism as the one proposed by Sean, moreover once it has been
already done for another project, as can be infered from his message.

Flame-GNU-free-ly, 
--
Victoriano Giralt
Systems Programmer
Central Computing Facility
University of Málaga
SPAIN