Re: [Fwd: [arch-users] Re: Gud lord!]

[Robert Anderson <rwa@alumni.princeton.edu>]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:23, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> 
> On 07 Jun 2003 22:01:29 -0700
> Robert Anderson <rwa@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps if emacs was using arch it would have 2x the contributors, since
> > contributions could be done without requiring CVS write access to begin
> > or work on significant contributions
> 
> People does contribute to Emacs every day without write access to CVS.
> Read access and an e-mail account is all you need to contribute
> (programming skills aside, of course). Installing the stuff is logically
> different from contributing.
> 
>                                                                 Juanma

Sure, and people could contribute if you read them the source over the
phone as well.  That's all they would "need."  Would you contribute if
that's all the facility you had?  It's not optimal, and neither is
working in an non source controlled environment for developing
substantial contributions.

Bob