Gnucash using GNOME CVS
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Uraeus@linuxrising.org
20 May 2002 22:30:25 +0200
Hi people,
I am happy to see that you will be using GNOME bugzilla and that Chris
is helping you setting it up.
Anyway I noticed that you have also discussed my little comment about
using GNOME CVS and I thought I should clear up some of the questions
raised here.
First of all regarding the issue of GNOME CVS being open and having
access to one module gives you access to all. We have implemented a
system with HACKING files in CVS which people are to read before
commiting anything to a module. What most of these files say is that no
commits are to be done without the approval of one of the maintainers.
In the many years now that GNOME CVS has been up and running I can only
think of 2 or 3 cases where this has been abused and the cvs commit in
question has to be reverted. So I think this issue has been now
historically proven to be next to non-existant.
Secondly is a little why. Well as Bill points our sharing CVS doesn't
make a 'community' or something like that. What is does give you however
is a large group of translators which will commit translations to your
module and it relieves you of the work of maintaining a CVS server.
It probably also increases the chance of the Sun documentation team
writing and giving you user documentation in the 7 languages supported
by Solaris.
Christian