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- CVS Development Policies
-
- This file, DEVEL-CVS, contains the policies by which the CVS
- development group operates. Also see the HACKING file.
-
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- Charter for the devel-cvs mailing list:
-
- The CVS Developers' List <devel-cvs@cvshome.org> exists to help people
- with access to the CVS source repository co-ordinate changes, make
- releases, and administer the repository.
-
- Everyone who has been given checkin access to the repository for the
- CVS sources should read devel-cvs. Only those with checkin access may
- send messages to the list.
-
- The devel-cvs list may be used to discuss:
- - administrivia regarding the CVS source repository and release
- process, and
- - changes and features intended for inclusion in the official CVS
- release (either source code or documentation), which someone plans
- to implement, or has implemented.
-
- The devel-cvs list should not be used to discuss:
- - changes or features to packages other than the CVS release
- (e.g., related packages like tkCVS, RAD/CVS, or other groups'
- distributions of CVS, like RCVS, etc.),
- - changes which nobody has offered to implement, or
- - the philosophy of CVS (as opposed to a specific change to CVS).
- These topics should either go on info-cvs, or have a new mailing list
- created for them.
-
- The topic restrictions in this charter do not reflect the development
- group's future plans for CVS; rather, they reflect a topic
- classification which the group finds helpful.
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- Policies regarding the CVS source repository:
-
- By checking items into the repository, developers agree to permit
- distribution of such items under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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- Procedure for dealing with people who want to be developers:
-
- People who want checkin access are first requested to send
- patches and have them reviewed by a developer. If they submit some
- good ones (preferably over a period of time, to demonstrate sustained
- interest), then one of the developers can ask the devel-cvs mailing
- list whether it is OK to make this person a developer (after first
- sending the prospective developer a copy of this file and then having
- the prospective developer say they want to be a developer). If there
- are no objections, the person will be made a developer.
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- Policy regarding checkout-only access:
-
- Checkout-only access to the CVS repository is available to all, on an
- anonymous basis (no need for registration or other complications).
- The exact technical mechanisms by which it is available are not
- covered by this policy.
-