Re: Snapshots availability

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:11 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Pavel,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 14:15 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Snapshots are not intended for developers.  Developers should be using
> > proper version control systems.  Snapshots are for users who want to try
> > the latest features and check if some bug has been fixed, but who don't
> > intend to keep the sources up-to-date.
> 
> Which doesn't contradict the fact that in circumstances it might be
> useful for me to take a look at a snapshot somebody used to create a
> mod, like in the case of mccolorer where I did not have the correct
> snapshot available to diff against. Hence my request.

Contributors should send patches and make sure that the patches only
contains their modifications and that the modifications are intended.
They should also be able to explain the reasons for every change.  If
they cannot do it, I would not consider such changes for committing to
CVS, for the reason that either the contributor is too sloppy, has
problems with memory or is not the original author of all the changes.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin