Re: Re: Configuration Management with CVS and Open Source Tools by Derek Clifford

Thanks Oliver,

The Archive is pretty impressive!

Regards

Chris

Oliver Giesen wrote:
> chrispbrown2004 wrote:
>> I found a file in CVS
>> http://cvsgui.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsgui/www/newfaq.htm?revision=1.21
>> which implies Derek Clifford died on 26 Feb 2004; the "RIP ..." text
>> has been removed in revision 1.22. Were reports of his death
>> correct? If so, this would explain why the links aren't working.
> 
> Yes, unfortunately the "reports" are correct. His wife contacted us 
> (i.e. cvsgui-owner) a couple of months later to ask me to remove him 
> from the mailing list as she did not have his passwords to do so herself...
> In the wake from the shock of that message I added the "RIP" bit on the 
> FAQ page and then later removed it again as I found it to be rather out 
> of context and might even be considered to be in poor taste by some - in 
> any case it didn't really belong in a technical document IMHO.
> 
> 
>> If anybody has an alternative location for Derek's book can the links
>> in http://www.wincvs.org/doc.html and
>> http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/newfaq.htm should be updated?
> 
> These pages are badly in need of an update no matter what. I just don't 
> have the time to do it anymore and probably won't for the forseeable 
> future because of my daytime job workload and family "obligations". As 
> some of you might have noticed I hardly find time to do anything beyond 
> approving new member postings and banning spammers these days (yes, this 
> list is still actively moderated).
> 
> 
>> I hope this book hasn't disappeared forever.
> 
> Nope, I just managed to recover it from archive.org :
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20040904183217/www.fermi.demon.co.uk/CM_Resources/cm_resources.html
> 
> I'll see whether we could put it on the cvsgui server or somewhere else 
> and then update the links. Don't hold your breath though (see above).
> 


 
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