[development] CVS accounts

[Boris Mann]

On 5-Jan-06, at 12:38 AM, Robert Douglass wrote:

> Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
>> Chances are that the cvs.module's import code suffers from some bit
>> rot so if someone wants to prepare or test the cvs.module's import
>> code, that would be much appreciated.
>
> It would be helpful if there were some really good documentation on  
> how to use Drupal to run a site like Drupal.org. I'd have to work  
> pretty hard to set up the project module and cvs.module with my  
> current skills, and not knowing exactly how Drupal.org runs and  
> operates is another hurdle.
>
> Drupal is a vastly successful project. Part of the reason why it is  
> successful is the infrastructure that has been created to support  
> development and participation. It seems to me like this  
> infrastructure would probably work well for a number of other  
> projects as well, yet I've never heard of or seen anyone running a  
> setup like Drupal.org.
>
> Maybe we'd get more people involved in the tools like project and  
> cvs modules if we made it easier to set up other projects and sites  
> with Drupal.org infrastructure. This would take a bit of  
> documentation and marketing.

I have never gotten a currently tagged version of project module to  
run with a current version of Drupal out of the box. Even using a CVS  
version meant lots of (nasty) bugs...I suspect this is because  
Drupal.org (along with project.module) always runs close to head and  
project.module maintainers hadn't been diligent about tagging/ 
branching. With all the recent work by nedjo, it's shaping up nicely  
-- thanks (and to the man behind the curtain, Kieran, for sponsoring  
that).

An "open source community" install profile/recipe *would* be great.

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