Re: savannah project for parted ?

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:18:34AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:28:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > After the security intrusion it suffered, savannah is now open again,
> > altough new project creation will still be closed until end of january.
> 
> GNU Parted already has a project on Savannah.  It is #1902.

Cool.

> I have added you to the project.

Cool (bis).

> > I propose myself to do the grunt work and coordinate the creation of a
> > parted project on savannah, and to manage it afterward. This would mean
> > the moving of the CVS server from the location it is now (Andrew's
> > personal harddisk ?) to a more public place, as well as maybe moving the
> > mailing lists to the savannah project.
> 
> I never used CVS for Parted.  I have kept every version of Parted, however.
> (I found CVS mades it rather difficult to manage changes of filenames
> and directory structure)

Well, which is why subversion is so much nicer.

> > Also, altough i am not sure if savannah has only CVS servers or not,
> > there is also the possibility to use an arch or subversion repository
> > instead. I have had no experience with arch, and altough it has
> > distributed functionality, it is less mature than subversion, which in
> > turn is a very nice replacement over CVS, and i have become used to it
> > quickly when managing my debian packages on alioth in it.
> 
> I would prefer anything over CVS.

So, let's ask the savannah guys if there is possibility for a subversion
or arch repository. I have experience with subversion, which is rather
nice and agreable and easy to use, but i hear arch provide support for
multiple distributed repositories.

Friendly,

Sven Luther