From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 19:06:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26031 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mule0.mindspring.com (mule0.mindspring.com [204.180.128.166]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26000 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:06:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by mule0.mindspring.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA56368 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:06:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970131030617.00922bc8@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:06:17 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: Source code commits Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:26 AM 1/30/97 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> I suggested a sort of "write-through" validation/submission system for >> the CVS tree a year ago, where anyone could "commit" to the source >> tree but for those people who weren't actually authorized to commit >> directly, what would happen instead is that the diffs would be >> automagically sent to the person or persons actually responsible for >> the code in question, and they would review and optionally commit it. > >Aieee, why go for trivial solutions when we can do something much more >useful (and difficult). > >I think it would be easier to rewrite CVS from scratch. :) Starting with RCS. A nice library with a well defined interface. Then CVS can be put on top of that. This is actually on my todo list. Above it, however, is getting a stable machine to do the coding on. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM House of Retrocomputing: - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM "Rebooting with command:" -- SPARCstation 10 boot prom