Requiring SCM

From: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:37:16 +0000
Subject: Requiring SCM
Groups: php.pear.dev 
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Hi guys, Haven't you all been in the situation that you want to view the source of X package but can't because the code is no where online except for that .tgz that pearweb provides ? Isn't that very frustrating ? IMHO it is very frustrating since we offer free hosting of the source in the php.net CVS repo. Now what I want to propose is that we start requiring people to have the code online someplace in a SCM repo, be it SVN/CVS (well we might want to limit to those 2 ?) both so we can checkout the source when ever we want and also view online via browser. There is no excuse not maintaining the source in SCM that's accessible to everyone, especially since we have our very own CVS repo at cvs.php.net which all PEAR developers can get access to if they like. For real, there is NO excuse for not having the code in SCM online, even tho it's time consuming to maintain such thing but I think we'll get greater quality on our packages and easier way to QA all packages (be it manually or via some automate ways). I mean I've gotten the response from certain PEAR devs (I'll name no names) that they won't place the code for their package in a online repo simply because there are no rules in PEAR that requires them to do so which in turns hinders me to effectively help with the package/bug fix/do QA on them. So what do you guys think ? Gimme ya thoughts on this! :-) - Helgi

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