Why don't we add some hooks in our CVS setup to post a message to this list whenever something is committed? Honestly, I don't care about what is committed, but it seems that plenty of people are upset that changes are occuring without them knowing.
Do we have that sort of CVS access at sourceforge? We had something sort of like that set up back in the day at Nupedia (all commits were written to a page that Larry, who started it all, could look at and decide whether or not he could run his "install all this stuff" script to update the site).
Just a thought, feel free to ignore it.
Why don't we add some hooks in our CVS setup to post a message to this list whenever something is committed? Honestly, I don't care about what is committed, but it seems that plenty of people are upset that changes are occuring without them knowing.
Useful for coders, probably less useful for the non-coders than a simple explanation "I did this/that". I try to post such an explanation when I change something, others don't. That may have something to do with the fact that such announcements often trigger endless discussions .....
Regards,
Erik
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