[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] advdomestic.c cleanup (PR#1149)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:48:39PM CET, I got a letter, where Jason
Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> Right now there is one full-time maintainer.  With two full-time maintainers
> we could have twice as much progress - certainly enough patches are being
> supplied to support this.  After the last discussion of this type, I thought
> we'd all agreed another maintainer would be beneficial?
> 
> http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200111/msg00901.html
Oh, I thought this is clear for all the time :-). I believe this decision is
not the problem. The problem is that noone volunteered to be the second
maintainer.

> We need more testing of supplied patches..  There are many ways in which this
> could be worked:
> 
> 1. Make a new CVS module external to freeciv.org (e.g. the SF project).
> 2. Make a new CVS module on freeciv.org.
> 3. Open up the current CVS module a bit more, and use stable branches as 
> necessary.
I vote for this. ASAP! We just need much more open CVS and catch errors
on the fly, IMHO. New year, new CVS policy seems like good connection to me :).

> 4. Make daily snapshots from patch collections.
> 
> Personally, I am in favor of #3.  The first two choices _could_ turn out
> being even better (and may work with #3 as well), but it's difficult to tell
> whether distribution will work as planned (i.e. whether anyone will actually
> _use_ the development code).
That's what I fear - I don't think anyone will ever use it. It just smells as
another blind alley to me.

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