Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

[david bovill]

> Maybe a good place to start with an open source community project  
> would be
> for to build a RevCVS.
>
> Am I crazy or what?

Not unless I am :) I used for a year of so CVS built into the  
Metacard environment I wrote. All script suites were exported into  
CVS, and individual handlers documented referenced and stored as well.

CVS does not handle binaries so well, so  to keep track with the open  
source guys we are moving over to SVN. Trac is a system that combines  
CVS with subversion source code management (SVN). Hope to get this up  
and running in the next month for those in Rev community that wish to  
use it.

Richard has a different take on this:

On 16 Oct 2005, at 00:40, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> But it may help others considering collaborative projects to  
> remember that getting work done is not dependent on first setting  
> up some complicated system to keep track of it all.  It's too easy  
> to let initial enthusiasm get dissipated in that sort of "analysis  
> paralysis".

Which is very true. Still what would we do without the fools that  
ignore good advice :)