Re: Re: Candidates for maintaining DA, step up! (Joe, FYI)

both the local account on the system, as well as even the use of the 
front-end open-it CMS-based web system would be okay. Furthermore, CVS 
is relatively simply to setup, and its in place for open-it already.

On Nov 25, 2003, at 8:43 PM, Manuel Amador wrote:

> El mar, 25-11-2003 a las 23:21, Eric Sandall escribió:
>> Quoting Manuel Amador <[email protected]>:
>>> We do indeed have a patch manager in SourceForge.  But the ideal
>>> situation would be me applying the patches and releasing a new 
>>> version,
>>> which for reasons known, is very probably not going to happen for 
>>> some
>>> time.  That's the reason for the maintainer search.
>>>
>>> The maintainer role should do everything I do, or split the job 
>>> between
>>> several collaborators (most likely).  I only need one person which 
>>> steps
>>> up to maintain it: he/she's from that point on completely free to 
>>> choose
>>> whoever he/she needs to help him/her in delivering good quality DA 
>>> =)  I
>>> stress this: the maintainer needs not do everything.  He could limit
>>> himself to patching up the source, writing the release notes, 
>>> releasing
>>> a new tarball once in a while, and let the others (packager, 
>>> translator,
>>> tester) do their job.  The infrastructure is already in place
>>
>> If nothing else, I can help with getting access to CVS and the web 
>> page, then
>> dish that out to those whom volunteer, and I have the time to 
>> apply/test
>> patches and create a tarball to put on the web, with an announcement. 
>>  ;) I
>> probably won't be able to work on new features nor work on new 
>> patches, unless
>> I'm also having that problem/need the feature at work.
>
> That would be okay.  Let me talk to Joe Little in order to get
> permission to use the Web server for you.  You'd be holding a user
> account for that server.  That is, evidently, only if Joe so permits.
> There's always the source forge web page space, though.
>
> So far, DA has not needed (or perhaps it has, but never used) CVS.  Do
> you think CVS or some sort of VCS would help development?
>
> I think a CMS-ed Web site would be a good thing to have for DA as well.
> Currently it's only static.
>
>>
>> -sandalle
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