[Gnu-arch-users] Moving a sourceforge project to arch

[Michael McCracken]

Hi, I've been catching on to arch over the last week or so, and I think 
it really makes more sense than CVS ever did. I have a project in 
sourceforge, and I am the most frequent contributor by far, but there 
are a few people who add things occasionally. Arch appeals to me 
because I work offline on a laptop half the time, and also because I 
recently had someone send me a huge set of changes to my project 
without any revision control and I find myself wishing I had nice small 
changesets to work with instead. So:

I'm thinking about moving the project to arch, and I wanted to ask a 
couple questions:

I get offers of help from people unfamiliar with version control, and 
who don't have time to learn CVS. I can tell them how to get the code, 
but they don't want to commit - they want to send me their changed 
version. I have to put up, since beggars can't be choosers. Does anyone 
have an opinion on whether or not arch makes this kind of thing easier 
to handle? If so, why, and how would you handle it?

The ideal solution would make it easy on contributors (they'd have to 
learn minimal to no tla usage) and easy on me (I wouldn't have to 
simulate their using tla)


Also, because some people are stuck on CVS, I wonder if there's a way 
to use both... Is it worth keeping both arch and cvs in sync? I saw 
some recipes for using both at the same time - is there an easy way, or 
is that the hairy mess I expect?

Thanks for any comments,
-mike

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