Ted Husted wrote:
> "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> > However, if they are 'independent entities', it is missing one thing -
> > the grouping of committers. I still chafe at the one large committer
> > group that spans every package idea. See 'Subproject Guidelines' #15 in
>
> I think it's mainly a security/human labor issue, Geir. There's a
> certain amount of work involved in setting up a new CVS repository, and
> adding committers to it. Until we can show cause, I think the best thing
> to do is use the status file to track the committers for each package,
> which will give us a leg-up in case we want to create more repositories
> later.
>
> I think the mailing lists, on the other hand, are easier to create, and
> are also self maintaining -- people can sub and unsub themselves. So,
> its easier to keep those separate from the beginning.
>
Speaking as the person that would be responsible for both of these things,
you've got the effort required totally backwards :-)
Setting up a CVS repository is very straightforward (< 3 minutes). Setting up
a mailing list is much more involved, and causes incremental overhead not only
on the Apache mail server (which serves all *.apache.org mailing lists) but
also on the nice mailing list repository sites that are responsible for
archiving our lists for us.
>
> The ASF is very security-conscience. If things were different, we could
> just install a copy of SourceForge and let that maintain most of this
> for us ;-)
>
> -T.
Craig
