[Uml-devel] Project coordination

Luis De la Parra lparrab at gmx.net
Fri Jul 19 00:47:03 UTC 2002


> How do you guys announce changes on the CVS tree anyway? Is there some 
> automatism or do you do it manually here on the list? Just curious.

I think we are having a serious organizational problem here. It seems no one
knows who is doing what, and cvs is really a mess.
Since I cant write to cvs and wont have internet access from home for the
next 4 weeks I've been sending all my code to paul so that he could put it into
cvs, but I dont remember seeing any mail telling someone has modified some
code, so I have no idea what the status of the cvs code is right now.

is there a way to set SF to notify to the list automatically when cvs gets
updated? (paul??) if yes, we need to turn it on. if no, it'd be nice to know
who has write access to cvs, and those people should commit themselves to
notify on the list the changes they make / apply. That why we all know what to
expect when downloading cvs.

paul: you said you wanted to pass on project coordination. is this still the
case? who is now guiding uml?

I still have my copy of cvs which I sent to paul a few days ago (file name
uml-luis2.tar.bzw) that file fixed the line terminator problems, fixed the
code generator problems and added a couple of new features (Esc and Shift) ) but
I dont really know if that code ever made it to CVS or if Paul's crash
happened before that.

Anyways.. I know it sounds like a lot of work, but I think this is what
should happen:
The "coordinator" should temporarly block cvs, and then get a fresh copy
from it.
I can send him my file and he can compare / merge the files.
Anyone else who has done some code and is not sure it made it to cvs does
the same (send it to the coordinator)
the coordinator tests that everything is working (should build and install
without any problems) if this is the case, he makes a distclean, removes
Makefile.in, configure, and all other files that are automatically generated and
then cleans cvs (copy the whole repository to a back up place) and does a new,
fresh import with the fixed code.

>From this point on, people writing to cvs must notify changes to the list
(should not take too long to write a two lines email) and take care not to add
files which should not be in cvs, like Makefiles and the such. Those should
be generated locally and shold stay local.

what to do you think? who is going to do it? I know we all dont have too
much time, so it will probably mean to suspend things for a couple of days, but
I think it's worth it.
I dont think I can do it because I dont have cvs / internet access at home,
but if no one else can /wants, you can send me your files per email, I'll put
them together and then send it to someone with cvs access who would only
need to backup cvs, delete everything and make a fresh import.
There was a volunteer to take over project coordination. Do you think you
can do it? Paul?

regards,

Luis

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