source management

hello,

I just built a monotone (http://venge.net/monotone ) repository
containing some of the snapshots to ease my work on some patches (bug504
and some more).
because of its design as distributed SCM (no need for write access at
the central server) and good merging capabilities, monotone might be
generally a good choice for external contributors (just create a branch,
do your work, merge the mainline changes into your branch to keep it up
to date every now and then, and eventually get it merged into mainline).

if there's interest I could build a publically accessable repository
that tracks the snapshots, with pretty open write access.

of course, it would be even better if there were read access to cvs for
tracking (you use cvs for development, right?), or even migrating
development altogether ;-)

the only downside I see is that monotone is still changing its
repository format every few releases, but it always had a sane migration
path, so it's more an annoyance than a show-stopper.

comments very welcome


patrick mauritz