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Re: RFC: lin-club-projects mailing-list

Shlomi Fish
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 11:16:44 -0700

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, mulix wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Alon Altman wrote:
> 
> >   I think it would be even better to have a seperate mailing list for each
> > project, devoted to the development of the project. Also, I think it would
> > be best to host the projects on SourceForge and use SourceForge to manage
> > the mailing lists.
> 
> for the next project, please mark my words - WE ARE USING CVS (which
> probably means sourceforge, if it's working).
> 
> i found that apporximately half of my time was spent making diffs and
> patches and Changelogs, all of which become much easier with cvs.
> 

1. CVS is a double-edged sword. It can be powerful, but may be an overkill
for very small projects. For instance, sometimes the diffs cannot be
applied cleanly, and their are branches forks, and other problems which
require knowing how to use it properly.

If a project has one main developer, then it is probably a good idea not
to use it. I don't know if that is the case for r2llib and refreshd, but
I'm just it could be.

2. Instead of Sourceforge we could use BerliOS or GNU Savanah. Both use
the Sourceforge backend and both are less crowded than Sourceforge. I have
an account on all three of them, so I don't mind which one too much. I am
slightly tilted towards BerliOS because it already hosts mirrors of
Haifux' site and my Freecell Solver project. 

> i guess we can settle the mailing list issue tomorrow at the club
> meeting, so if you want to make a difference, be there...

Agreed.

> -- 
> mulix
> http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix
> 
> linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
> 



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