On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Sean Schofield wrote:
I have a few more suggestions for the MyFaces development team:
#1) Consider moving from CVS to Subversion (SVN) when its time to leave the incubator. Apache has both types of repositories available. Struts just recently moved to SVN and people like it. I'm not totally familiar with advantages vs. disadvantages but it seems to be a lot more flexible. If this is something we'd consider than it would be best to do it at the same time as MyFaces leaves the incubator.
I would strongly encourage this. Apart from the fact that all of the ASF repositories will eventually be required to move from CVS to SVN, SVN really does have some excellent advantages. The two biggest, in my experience, are atomic commits (meaning that all changes within one commit are handled as a single transaction) and ease of refactoring. From an infrastructure perspective, using moving to SVN means that individual Unix accounts for every committer are no longer required.
#2) Regardless of whether we use SVN or CVS, it would be nice to email the developer's list when users check in. This is a standard practice with other Apache projects and helps developers keep track of changes to the codebase.
Yep. Not sure why this isn't happening already.
-- Martin Cooper
sean
