john s jacobs anderson <jacobs(a)azstarnet.com&gt; writes: I agree. It used to be that the "XEmacs maintainer" (currently Steve) was responsible for that (as well as deciding which apaches to apply). We shifted the patches burden, it seems like a good idea to this with the PR too. This is basically what CVS is all about. No (by default CVS doesn't even do (2), although it can). The main advantage is keeping track of changes. This already a huge advantage when working alone and it is a must-have when working with others. Setting up and using CVS is fairly simple. There is just two points to keep in mind 1. Due to a design error in CVS moving/renaming files is harder than it should (not impossible just less convenient then it should be). 2. The perfect solution would a web-server (a mod_cvs for apache) than can serve directly out of CVS. However this currently impossible. Thus you need to CVS checkout the file on the web server. Either you do this manually and then it isn't much different from using ftp to update the site or you have the webserver do this periodically. The last solution is harder, but has the advantage that not everybody needs access to the Web server. The manual solution would look something like (after initial setup) # Send your changes to the repository cvs commit # (optional) # Tell the CVS server that the state as now is ready for release cvs tag public # Tell the webserver to get the changes from CVS ssh www.xemacs.org cvs update In "automatic mode" the last line would be done by a cron script on www.xemacs.org. What was trying to say (in a humorous way, but it failed) that we should plan for the contingency of you (or anyone else) being unavailable (such as after you won the lottery and when on a round the world trip). Thats why I brought up CVS because it means that others have access to the master copy of the website and in case of "automatic" updates that access to CVS is sufficient to update the website. It also means that people should have the discipline to not do this until absolutely necessary. Yes. Like I wrote before; There is no need to rush this. Maybe you should talk a bit with other projects that have their website under CVS. Jan