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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:40:16 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>>
>>How will you coordinate multiple updates from multiple possible
>>contributors? Or will each contribution "stand on its own" and "live or
>>die" on its own merit?
>>
> Alas, this requires a moderator.  I haven't used CVS or Subversion,
> but even so, I suspect a moderator is necessary.  And who would
> host a CVS server?
>
> I doubt that the CBTTape personnel have the resources to moderate
> all the programs hosted by CBTTape.org;  the responsibility must
> devolve to individual owners.  ESR has some comments on this in
> "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
>
> I've contributed to various community development efforts using
> diff/patch (Lynx, XTerm).  Diff and Patch are available on z/OS;
> A moderator is required to reconcile and merge patches and to
> host the resulting version.  And one (Charlotte) using CMS UPDATE,
> again with a moderator reconciling patches  CMS UPDATE is not
> available under z/OS.  IEBUPDTE is a poor cousin of CMS UPDATE,
> but perhaps workable.
>
> -- gil
>
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