On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:27:41PM -0700, SL Baur wrote:
 Possibly of interest to the problem of distributed XEmacs
 development ... 
We   don't usually have  big patches  that  go around,  are tested and
tweaked by  some people,  then  eventually are rejected   or included.
That's why I think this system wouldn't fit.   Also, you seem to trust
the reviewers more than  Linus trusts  Alan  Cox, David S.  Miller and
others.
The xemacs-patches/xemacs-review system isn't bad, actually.  The only
difficult point is when to jump a thread out of the review list to the
beta one  in case of fundamentals discussions.   Also keeping track of
what has been reviewed and what hasn't sometimes is a problem.
A system  that  may be  very interesting  given   our organization  is
Jitterbug <URL:http://samba.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/jitterbug>.  You   send
in  patches by mail, they jump  into the  "pending" queue, then people
can test them and trusted ones can annotate them and move them to some
"reviewed", "rejected", "urgent",  ...  queue.  Steve can
additionnaly
take them, apply them and move them to "applied".
Additionnal benefits would be that you can't lose a patch.
Drawback: it is web-based.
I have no system I could put the  system on for xemacs  use, but I can
go and take the time to install and nurse  it somewhere if it can help
(and I'm told which somewhere ;-).  I've never installed it though, so
anyone else would be as good as me there :-)
  OG.