[viewvc-dev] Best Way to Collaboratively Customize ViewVC?

Hi,

I'm a user of an older version of ViewVC.

Our software developers are working on a collaborative database in PHP.
We'd like to integrate ViewVC into this, in the sense that ViewVC should
recognize session cookies issued through our login process, validate them
(MySQL queries), and display error screens if a user isn't logged in.  We
plan to customize ViewVC to do this.

Customization is the easy part (it is just standard server-side web database
programming).

The hard part is:  What is the best way for us to collaborate with the
ViewVC community and make our work useful to others?  Is there any provision
in ViewVC for "variants" or "patches"?  Or do we just customize the code and
leave the end result on the web somewhere?

What is the best way to collaborate?

Thanks, Dave.