[H-GEN] Re: Project Idea: CVS repository

[Anthony Towns]

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Hiya Martin,

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Martin Pool wrote: [in H-GEN]

> Part of Humbug's charter is (IIRC) to promote the use and development of
> free software.  There's plenty of small-medium projects out there, like
> Apache's mod_jserv, which are in need of a CVS repository like those used
> to great effect by OpenBSD and its kin.

I'm not sure if anyone's said or done anything about this yet --
certainly nothing's been mentioned publically. Anyway, I agree that it
sounds like a cool idea.

And since I've finally started to get serious about getting a
permanent net connection (probably via bit.net, at this point,
although I haven't had a good hard look yet) I thought that this would
be a cool use to put azure.

I've also noticed the FSF's GNAT system; which I believe the apache
people use for bug reporting. It seems quite nice; modulo GNU's usual
fascination with over engineering systems. In particular it might be a
cool thing to make available with the CVS repository, rather than just
recommending everyone keep a "TODO" file listing any outstanding bugs
or whatever.

I was also thinking of starting up a code review mailing list/web
site. I like code reviews.

Anyway: what sort of system would a CVS repository need? I can
probably dedicate a gigabyte to it, but azure's not particularly fast
or stable by most standards...

Have you seen _Rapid Development_ by Steve McConnell, btw? (it's about
the size of _Code Complete_, and there's one copy in McGill's now) I
had a quick flip through it today (I bought the Meyer's _More
Effective C++_ -- perfect SWOT vac material for someone who's not
doing a single C++ subject) and it actually seemed pretty decent:
thorough enough to even be relevant to a second year undergrad.

Cheers,
aj

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