On 11/3/05, Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *snip* > Why? Maintained, yes. Per author, no. Separately from CVS, > definitely not. Having it public encourages others to pick up where > the original author left off. CVS is first and foremost a > collaboration tool. Removing code from CVS stifles collaboration and > contribution.
I actually totally agree with Michael on all this. If the modules' authors use CVS, we can keep track of the codes: we know what they changed at which point in time and also able to give feedback on what to improve. People watch those CVS commits and sometimes highlight the "fishy" commits on the devel-list and hint a more appropriate way of doing things. Well this is a nice principle and we can all learn from it. Off CVS, we have *no control* over what's being changed. Of course you could use "diff" every time but that ain't practical at all, especially when the codes are splitted into many components. Off CVS, the modules stand more chances of blowing up your box because it would be practically a one-man show with no watch dog! I am in favor of letting those modules in the enlightenment SF cvs. Third party modules without peer review is the devil. And as michael mentioned, we could split them and not having them in one big chunk e_modules if there are some concerns about maintainability of some modules. Btw it would be nice that issues like these appear on the e-devel mailing list also so that everybody (and not just developers) can give their opinions. Not everybody hang out on #edevelop all the time. And don't forget that we have different time zones too! :) -- With kind regards, Didier. ------------ Yum/apt repository for DR17/EFL: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe Didier F.B Casse PhD candidate, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) National University of Singapore. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
