[PD-dev] cvs admin question ...

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> First off, you should _always_ post to the pd-dev list before making  
> any changes to that file.  Period.  That goes for any of the files in  
> CVSROOT.  Its too easy to seriously break things by editing those  
> files.  And you should have confirmation from all those involved that  
> its ok.

true

> 
> Second, "tmusil" is not an existing user.  If Thomas wants to maintain  
wrong, we just created that user (on sf) yesterday; i told tim to add 
"tmusil" _after_ the user was created.
since tim was not able to add him to the devs, i added him to pd-gem in 
the meantime, which worked like a charm (about 14h ago) (to all 
gem-devs: this is just temporary so i could help him to set up his ssh-keys)

> iemlib in the sourceforge CVS, that would be great.  But just locking  
yes

> everyone out of the iemlib directory is not helpful to anyone.

of course i cannot speak for thomas, but: he prefers to be the sole 
maintainer of his sources.
i agree that this is not very like "community based development", but 
this is how things are.
there are other people with the same policy (e.g. like tom who is just 
mirroring his own cvs into pure-data)

therefore i asked tim on the irc (because he was the only admin online) 
to make the iemlib's readonly (except for thomas who should have 
write-perms of course)


> 
> For iemlib, I imported the IEM sources so that they could be part of  
> the build system.  This was discussed on this list.  I put on access  
> restrictions so that people wouldn't mistakenly commit to iemlib there  
> since its maintained elsewhere.  If someone wants to work on iemlib in  
> the SourceForge CVS, they can make a branch, then submit patches.

which is perfectly ok.

it is just to ensure that no one fu**s up tom's sources, or at least 
_his_ MAIN branch (either by accident or evil purpose (i do know that 
this sounds paranoid, but there is no arguing about that; tom's reason 
to _not_ use the puredata-CVS for so long has been born from this fear - 
after he had his first look at the CVS-version of pd itself and what 
people had done to it))

please do accept other people's attitudes.


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IOhannes