--On Thursday, June 03, 2004 2:25 PM -0400 Ed Ravin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:52:03AM -0700, Jim Trocki wrote:this is a matter of historical record which should be public. rather than post his patched version to the mailing list for everyone to have a gander at and do something with if they chose, he sent them only to me
Sounds like he wanted to respect your role as maintainer of Mon, and run major changes by you before releasing them to anyone else. The patches probably arrived at a moment when you didn't have time to look at them, allowing the misunderstanding and subsequent miscommunication to fester.
Bingo. In fact, here's a quote from a message I sent to mon-l last June:
"If anyone is interested in using my code, contact me and I'll point you to our CVS repository. (Note: I'm *not* interested in forking mon, but if more people are testing my code, maybe Jim will be willing to integrate it into the mainline more quickly.)"
I even got a request for access from Jim, and in the message I sent him I gave the URL for our CVS repository and said (among other things):
"I'm intending to fix these issues before sending you a patch. But, as I said, I'm waiting till you release something resembling my CVS version 2.0 (which is the version I assigned to the last patch I sent to you), and then I'll send you another patch, or patches. I'm not going to send this URL to the mon list. I don't want tons of people using this code, because I'm trying to discourage a mon fork."
These kinds of problems would be less likely to happen if we were using Sourceforge or the like, since both the latest development version and submitted patches would be publicly visible to all.
Any publicly available CVS repository would be great. I'm not sure whether sourceforge is the best option, but ultimately I don't care as long as it works.
David Nolan Network Software Developer Computing Services Carnegie Mellon University
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