Daniel Rall wrote:
>
> Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > dlr wrote:
> > > I agree. However, I do not have commit to the Commons. I am also
> > > overwhelmed by the size of the Commons repository--it's a bit of a
> > > mess because it has like 10 projects living in the same CVS module. I
> > > find that extremely annoying and hard to use, especially with the
> > > current overloaded state of cvs.apache.org.
> >
> > Every committer has automatic access to the sandbox and if you want
> > to put stuff there. But most of the util code that you have made might
> > fit under the existing collections package so you could get commit
> > access fairly easily.
>
> I would prefer to fit my code under existing Commons packages, but
> find the current CVS module of unmanagable size for utility code.
>
Choose the package you like and put it there :) and ignore the rest.
> > Commons is growing fast definitely ... maybe it could be broken
> > up into separate repositories. It started out as an experiment
> > so be patient :-)
>
> Is there any particular reason not to break things up into separate
> CVS modules, a la jakarta-turbine-{tdk,jyve,oragami}?
It was historical - the idea is that the components will be
well-packaged and released for use, so no one will often take the whole
CVS. Another motivating notion was as a community experiment, to keep
one big CVS that all committers are a part of...
You can just checkout parts that you are interested in - you don't need
to get all :
cvs checkout jakarta-commons-sandbox/rupert
for example...
geir
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