[development] CVS accounts

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Dave Cohen wrote:

>On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:38 am, Robert Douglass wrote:
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>>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.
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>I just started using project module to keep track of my own work.  It seems 
>like a great tool to coordinate with the people I work with, and provide some 
>visibility to my clients.  I've just started to do this, it's still an 
>experiment for me.
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I did this too once and it generally worked well.

>My impression so far is the project module is not quite ready for public 
>consumption.  I say this because its short on documentation and there's a few 
>things about that seem very drupal.org specific.  For instance there's a 
>reference to url 'forum/18' with no easy way to change it.
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Please create patches and file issues. It appears that Nedjo is the 
current de-facto maintainer of the module and I think he will like some 
help in improving it.

>But without too much pain I'm using it to track issues.  As I understand it 
>better I'll submit issues (and patches) to drupal.org.  All this module needs 
>is more users and a little time.
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Yes. The problem was and still is to some degree that is was very 
drupal.org specific so nobody else could use it.

Cheers,
    Gerhard