Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Maintainer of current photo-album package?

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4: Re: Maintainer of current photo-album package? (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 11/10/03 04:19 PM
If only we were using arch...

Anyone could make modifications of any package and the maintainer (or anyone else) could just synch the desired changeset to get the functionality/changes/fixes.

Maybe someday 😊

-Roberto

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9: Re: Maintainer of current photo-album package? (response to 4)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 11/10/03 11:42 PM
Roberto,

while arch is a better CMS in the making than CVS it is no substitute for a package maintainer. The problem is not how to fork a package or how to get bits and pieces of a fork back into the canonial package. But rather the lack of a package maintainer who would use tools like arch or CVS to keep the canonial package up to date.

/Bart

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14: Re: Maintainer of current photo-album package? (response to 9)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 11/11/03 10:16 PM
Bart, tell it to Linus. :) He was and is the primary "package maintainer" for the Linux kernel, but switched to a better version control system, one rather like Arch, in order to be able to accept more patches with less work. And to allow others to do the same as well.