We are not a `cathedral'. Changes suggested by Ben.
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are its extensibility, self-documentation, and its support for
multilingual text processing, and is actively being developed by
volunteers from all over the world. This site is intended for
- use by people wanting to hack on the sources. For more
+ use by people wanting to hack on or test the sources. For more
information, or for source/binary tarballs, check out the
<a href="http://www.xemacs.org">XEmacs main WWW server</a>.
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<h3><a name="whatcvs">What is CVS?</a></h3>
<p>CVS is a hierarchical revision control system that not only keeps
- track of older versions (natch) but also allows spiffy things like
- separate branches for concurrent development and coordination
- services for large numbers of developers. The XEmacs project is
- more slanted towards a cathedral organization, with all patches to
- the core code going through a central moderator rather than being
- directly applied to the codebase. This is why all access to the
- core trees is read only. But even with no ability to commit your
- changes to the tree, CVS gives you a painless way to upgrade between
- versions, as well as a way to easily track what changes you have
- made to your local copy.</p>
+ track of older versions (natch) but also allows spiffy things like
+ separate branches for concurrent development and coordination
+ services for large numbers of developers. CVS is currently the
+ defacto industry standard source code control system for open source
+ software projects. Knowledge of CVS and ssh are becoming required
+ skills in the free software community. Regular contributors to
+ XEmacs are strongly encouraged to get CVS write access to the source
+ repository. This distributes most of the patch-tracking work to
+ those most qualified to do it, namely the patch authors. XEmacs
+ source code maintenance is basically organized on the bazaar model -
+ we'd like to have as many people as possible, including
+ <strong>you</strong>, making high quality contributions to the
+ source code, in parallel. But even if you are just a lurker with no
+ desire to make any modifications to the tree, CVS gives you a
+ painless way to upgrade between versions.</p>
<p>Be warned that these trees are large! XEmacs 21 sources will
take up almost 40 MB of hard drive space, before compilation. Add