Impossible to commit to packages

Nelson Ferreira nelson.s.ferreira at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 01:56:47 EDT 2011


On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Nelson Ferreira writes:
> 
>> It would be nice if http://xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html is
>> updated... Just sayin'
> 
> No point in doing it now, because in a few days (I hope) there will be
> announcement that we are no longer using CVS at all.  (I don't think
> we'll rip out the repo on alioth, but since there is a huge bug in
> commit access and there doesn't seem to be any way to convince Debian
> to fix it, it will never be updated and we are going to stop even
> thinking about trying.)
> 

Ok, I may have been mislead by Mike's email that anonscm.debian.org was to be the permanent replacement of alioth. I did see some discussion on the list about replacing it but nothing really concrete. Hence my (possibly hasty) comment.



> I apologize for not really keeping sxemacs in the loop, but this has
> been a private project of somebody else's up to last week, and AFAIK
> Norbert Koch is still active in SXEmacs and he has very definitely
> been kept in the loop.
> 

As far as I'm concern as a developer of SXEmacs, no harm done, and I also apologize if my message was interpreted in a harsher tone than just a wish.

Best regards,

Nelson



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