hi all,

since a few people expressed their interest in contributing to nova, i
am currently thinking about a good way how to incorporate changes into
the subversion trunk, which can be considered as "my" branch ...

at the moment, mischan expressed his interest in writing a numberbox
object, and niklas (with phil?) are trying to write a message object ...
first of all, i am really grateful, that you guys are interested in
helping with nova ... 

so, i am thinking of a way to be able to follow your work, while still
having the control over the trunk...
so, what i was thinking about, was to give write access to personal
branches on the svn, that you guys can work on ... something
like /branches/niklas_phil (if you guys want to work together?)
and /branches/mischan. 

pro:
- i can see what you are working on, mainly through the svn-commit
emails, so it will be easier for me to review your code, and it improves
the process of including patches to the trunk.
- i keep the full control over the nova trunk (at least for now) ... as
i don't know, how much time you are going to spent on nova, i feel
responsible to understand most of the code, so that i will be able to
maintain it on my own ...

contra:
- you guys would work on a fork from the trunk, so you may miss bug
fixes or features that are introduced to the trunk. a decentralized
version control system may solve this problem, but it would make it
harder for me to follow, what you are working on ... tools like svk
would make it easier for you guys ...

so i would somehow be in favor of the approach, giving you access to
branches. if you would like to work with personal svk repositories, it
would be great, if you can send emails to the nova-svn list with diffs
to the trunk every once in a while ...

i will also try to write a document about the code style and formatting
of nova ... there _is_ a style, that i want the code to look like, but
unfortunately, i am not consistent with that myself, yet (there is still
some old code, which is written in the old style) 

i hope, this all sounds reasonable, it is just, that my main interest is
the code quality ... if anyone wants to get write access
to /branches/my_personal_branch, please contact me privately, including
a public gpg key, that i can use to send you an encrypted email
containing the password. 

cheers, tim

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