Re: [Cvs-dev] cvs features for gnu savannah

[Conrad T. Pino]

> From: Cvs-dev On Behalf Of Mark D Baushke

> I think it would be very good if we could get together a 
> release of CVS 1.12.13+ which had all of the bug fixes and 
> minor feature enhancements that the distributions have come to expect.
> 
> I also think that the top-of-tree of CVS, while it has many 
> good things, may have gone into a direction that is not 
> really currently complete enough to release as-is. As an 
> example, the move to adopt GNULIB macros and functions 
> stopped before they got to GPLv3+ in 2007, but are probably 
> not maintainable as a fork of GNULIB. So, that particular set 
> of changes probably needs to be avoided as the source base is 
> upgraded.

I volunteer to archive CVS top-of-tree into separate branch and then revert
specific ChangeLog commits to bring CVS top-of-tree into a state ready to
accept new commits for a future 1.12.14 release.

I'm guessing that CVS top-of-tree would look much like the 1.12.13a patch
does now.

> For what it is worth, I have added Thorsten Glaser to the CVS project.

Thank you!

> I think that most of what has been added to the 
> 1.12.13-MirDebian-11 release would make a good start for a 
> 1.12.14 release added on top of the 1.12.13a patch.

I volunteer to merge 1.12.13-MirDebian-11 release changes into CVS
top-of-tree if publicly accessible and as requested.

> I suspect a number of bug fixes are long over-due for a cvs 
> 1.11.24 release as well.

I believe I can retrofit bug fixes made to 1.12 into 1.11 branch.

Best regards,
Conrad Pino