| From: | simond |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 11:35:53 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: GNU Ports Co-Ordination |
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:00AM +0100, amimjf@connectfree.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,.
>
> I am sure its only a matter of time before people start to duplicate other
> peoples work, so i think there should be some organisation on porting
> stuff.
>
> In the short term i think it would be best for us all if people who are
> currently "in progress" with ports could relay to this message so i (and
> others) know where we stand.
>
> No need to show off i dont want peoples ego taking over, please be relistic
> (i expect you will, but i have recently worked with people who were not),
> so please only include ports you are actully working on (now).
>
> I will start it off,
>
> Matthew - Perl 5.6 (50%) / Pyhton (80%) / jikes (96%)
Personally I'd suggest not doing it like this but instead importing the
original distribution into CVS and then commiting changes as you make them,
then multiple people can work on different parts of the same project
at once, that's the way CVS is meant to work ;)