Hi,
Say I'm interrested in contributing in debian-edu
and I'm looking for the version control system.
This is my trail & error:
http://www.nl.debian.org/devel
scroll down to the bottom to get to
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianEdu
click on DebianEduToPackage to
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianEduToPackage
that lists only some packages to be packaged.
Back to http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianEduToPackage
for the link to http://www.skolelinux.org
Being redirected to http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/
Clicked on contribute a.k.a. "get involved button"
( http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/contribute/ )
Link marked with "development"
did bring me to http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/contribute/development/
where promising title Introduction
An introduction for new developers
( http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/contribute/development/introduction )
And yes: CVS ACCESS
The CVS primer
http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/contribute/development/cvs_intro
speaks about cvs.skolelinux.org
Using viewCVS, I got old files
(
http://cvs.skolelinux.no/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/skolelinux/src/samba-ldap/debian/
) or tarballs (
http://cvs.skolelinux.no/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/skolelinux/src/samba-ldap/share/
) but no recent version control system files. :-((
So I left that dead looking trail.
However is it actually a death trail?
Should it be marked as such?
My next attempt was http://alioth.debian.org,
and yes it has a "debian-edu" project. (
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-edu/ )
Another mouse click did bring me to
http://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=30003
with a standard page that states to checkout 'modulename'
<sarcastic>yeah, right</sarcastic> the f*^Wfantastic modulename.
Browse the CVS repository (
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=debian-edu )
revealed five possible modules:
[DIR] debian-edu/
[DIR] debian-edu-install/
[DIR] html/
[DIR] security/
[DIR] src/
Starting with the first, debian-edu/ did bring me to
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/debian-edu/src/debian-edu-install/debian/po/?cvsroot=debian-edu
_without_ seeing any files.
Has some one in this mailinglist to power to delete that _empty tree_ in
the CVS repository?
If yes: What are you waiting for?
If no: Any proposals how people after me can avoid that time trap?
Okay up to debian-edu-install/
.....
<sarcastic>Nice, only one emtpy directory</sarcastic>
As none webdesigner, I skipped html/
security/README:
| Debian-Edu/Skolelinux Security team's cvs-repository
| ----------------------------------------------------
|
| This repository shall contain all sources for the non-Woody packages
| we are using in Debian-Edu/Skolelinux.
And nothing else in the security/ directory.
I suggest: take that _almost empty_ directory behind the barn and shoot it
In src/ (
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/?cvsroot=debian-edu
) is
[DIR] build/
[DIR] cronjobs/
[DIR] debian-edu/
[DIR] debian-edu-build/
[DIR] debian-edu-config/
[DIR] debian-edu-install/
[DIR] desktop-profiles/
[DIR] localization-config/
[DIR] xdebconfigurator/
My first pick was debian-edu/
with most recent file 4 months ago.
xdebconfigurator was recently released, but xdebconfigurator/
freshed file is three _months_ old. That doesn't match
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdebconfigurator.html
where an update packages is announce two _weeks_ ago.
So I still didn't found debian-edu version control system repository.
Which website update was missed (by me) ?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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