If you don't use the XEmacs CVS repository, you can safely ignore this message. XEmacs is switching its home for active development from CVS to Mercurial. THIS WILL HAPPEN ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6. At that time, we will also set up a mirror from Mercurial to CVS, so, for the time being you can still use CVS to keep current with the source code if you wish. This only affects the core of XEmacs for the time being, and only the trunk of the CVS. Both the packages and 21.4 development will continue to live in CVS for the time being. Location ======== Read-only access will be available here: http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta Commit Access ============= If you currently have commit access to the XEmacs CVS, but don't have commit access to the Mercurial repository yet, go to: http://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php There, sign up as a user and send me your account name. I'll get you set up. Getting Mercurial ================= Mercurial itself is available here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ This online book on Mercurial is a highly recommended resource: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.html Commit policy ============= The active developers will commit to a separate "xemacs" repository. The "xemacs-beta" repository will slightly lag "xemacs"---selected developers will push changes from "xemacs" to "xemacs-beta" with a delay of at least 48 hours, and only to the point where there aren't any immediate serious problems with the changes to be pushed (such as a review veto or a broken build). Authors of patches that are vetoed are expected to back them out (via "hg backout"). To facilitate this process, every commit to "xemacs" will trigger an e-mail to be sent to xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org, where it can be reviewed and discussed. These automatic e-mails replace the manual e-mails we have now. To make sure they fulfill the same purpose, committers are asked to provide informative ChangeLog entries and commit messsages. Commit messages may be identical to the ChangeLog entry. Users without commit access will continue to send patches to xemacs-patches as currently. Anybody who wishes their patch to receive review before committing is also welcome to send a patch to xemacs-patches for discussion." -- Regards, Mike Sperber (for the XEmacs review board) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta