[Egothor-tech] CVS access?

[Pawel Widera]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Leo Galambos wrote:
> Well, that's right - CVS is very important, on the other hand, do we really 
> need it when I wrote 99.99% of code? I mean, who will need a write access to 
> the repository? If only one developer needs the write access, CVS is useless. 
> That's the first aspect.

The reason you write almost all the code is probably that nobody else has 
access to the cvs tree. Reveal the CVS and give developers a chance to 
help you. I'm not requesting a write access for everybody since that would 
not be usefull. However a read access to the project source is very 
important.

Many aspects of the project are only visible in the source code. If you 
cannot check code reasons for application specific behaviours, you cannot 
trace bugs and in general, understood how things works. As Dawid pointed 
out, you cannot also keep track of changes and the philosophy behind it.

> Next, I think that the open source community likes finished projects where 
> some guys can tidy up several lines of code. None wants to sit down and work 
> 8-10 hours a day for OSS -- just for fun.

Very often full time is not an option, but an hour a week or so, 
could be a valuable help too. When there is a point to start the 
involvement should increase in time. To apply a patch for an annoying bug 
there is no need to spend all day on the project, it is enough to be able 
to see the source. The time is just the time. The same could be said about 
testing. Having the source available, the bug reports could be much more 
thorough and thus it could save you some work.

> Therefore, I will rather open CVS as soon as indexer+searcher+robot are done. 
> Unfortunately, I have some troubles in the new robot so that it is delayed 
> again :(

If voting upon this matter is possible, my vote is to open CVS as soon as 
possible, even in read only mode.

Greets,
MoMaT