Re: [Wikiwyg-dev] Mozilla developers looking to help: minibranch requested

[Dave Rolsky <dave.rolsky@socialtext.com>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Alex Vincent wrote:

> Our company, ManyOne Networks, Inc., has taken a look at your Wikiwyg 
> software, and we are impressed.  The capabilities it offers are most useful 
> to our services.  We'd like to contribute code improvements to your 
> repository to fix bugs and clean up the code base.  As our changes may be 
> somewhat hefty, we'd like to do so on a SVN branch on your repository 
> (preferably off a semi-stable branch or trunk), until we've stabilized the 
> changes enough to port them back to your trunk.  We'd also like accounts and 
> access to your bug management system, so you can review our suggested 
> changes.

To mirror our SVN repo I'd suggest either using SVN::Mirror 
(http://search.cpan.org/~clkao/SVN-Mirror-0.68/) or SVK 
(http://svk.elixus.org). The former is a simple mirror/syncing tool, while 
the latter is a full-featured distributed version control system.

As far as access to our bug management system, unfortunately right now the 
Wikiwyg bugs are in the same system as the rest of our product's bugs, and 
there's no easy way to split them up, so we'd need to come up with a way 
to either limit access to the existing system, or maybe use a different 
system entirely for Wikiwyg. That's something we'll have to discuss 
internally, I think.

But for discussion of changes, I think this list is probably the best 
place to do it anwyay. You can simply write up what you'd like to do and 
we can talk about both the concept and possible implementations.


Thanks,

Dave Rolsky
Programmer @ Socialtext, Inc.
www.socialtext.com