Re: Setting up a TMDA patch repository

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:50:47PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:

> So, I was thinking about starting a repository for these patches.
> Initially, this will just be a collection of contributed patches and
> nothing more.

I was thinking along the same lines myself; I just haven't gotten around
to dedicating a box to it yet. My personal preference is for a wiki,
because without some documentation and explaination, most patches are
pretty incomprehensible even for the average programmer. 

Qmail has been maintained in a similar fashion for many years, due to
the inability to redistribute a modified source tree. So, there's no
reason TMDA couldn't exist forever without a new fork, although that
might be necessary somewhere down the line if the list of
non-discretionary patches gets too large.

I've been trying to take a bigger hand in bug-hunting and feature
patches, but I personally have no desire at this time to maintain the
code base. So unless someone else does, I think the patch wiki is the
current best way forward.

If no one else does it before then, I'll probably slap something
wiki-ish (and therefore more or less self-maintaining) together on a
forthcoming CodeGnome web server.

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