On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:57, Daniel N wrote: > > On 8/6/07, Charlie Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TRANS wrote:
> Thats the whole reason for a fork... No one can check in... How about using something like bazaar (http://www.bazaar-vcs.org) to start a branch off the anonymous CVS/SVN head and then whoever has patches can put them on a website (hosting the whole branch). If Trans wants to coordinate pulling in the patches from the other branches and hosting them, then maybe that'd work. Once someone gets check-in privs for the project or the original maintainer is back on the scene, a diff can easily be generated from the bzr or whatever distributed VCS branch(es) as necessary and pulled in. It's a bit of a different development model, but I think it would certainly work well in this case. I've been using bazaar lightly on some projects for the last year or so, and found it quite good. There are other alternatives, but I haven't used them myself. I have to agree with Charlie. I think forking and starting from scratch is a bad idea if the code's relatively clean--learn from the Netscape/Mozilla thing rather than make the same mistake (see Joel on Software if necessary). In the meantime, as long as one or more people can make their branches available to the rest of the interested developers, I think the existing problems could be addressed if there were a few people available that could look at it. Unfortunately, my C is quite rusty, and I'm not in the position to hack on the code myself at the moment, but I'm sure there are those on the list who are. Once they have a way to track their changes, it seems like that's all that's standing in the way of moving the project forward. ast -- Andrew S. Townley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atownley.org _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
