On Dec 9, 11:08am, Fred L. Drake wrote:
> Subject: Re: latex2html: Re: New developer's site URL!
>
>Marek Rouchal writes:
> > To all the others watching the list: Before you start flooding the list
> > with "Me too!" Emails, please take a moment of time to consider the pros
>
> How about a "Please, not me!"? As much digging into it as I think
>I've done and found useful, I'm much happier when I don't need to.
>This is better left to someone who *understands* Perl, which I'm happy
>to say I don't.
>
> > Please do not misunderstand me, I'm strongly in favor of having more
> > people contributing actively, but the larger the team gets, the more
> > difficult the organisation gets. Just as a hint: I believe that 10
> > concurrent (CVS) developers is the upper limit.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing two things: anonymous, read-only CVS
>access (easier to use than new tarballs for those of us that use CVS
>extensively anyway), and a mailing list that gets CVS checkin
>messages. We use anonCVS for the Python language sources to do this,
>and there are other systems that offer similar functionality as well.
>If anyone is interested, I can get some additional info from the
>person who set this up for us when he gets back next week.
>
>
To rephrase some of Fred's comments, I'd propose that we come out
with "full" releases on a more reqular basis. This would allow
the developers to "re sync" periodically and the non-developers
wouldn't have to go through the CVS process.
Putting together full release versions is a major effort but
should be well worth it. One every six months should be
sufficient for most people.
Scott Nelson
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