[poppler] Mailing list test

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Fri Mar 4 07:29:31 PST 2005


Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Divendres 04 Març 2005 04:32, Kristian Høgsberg va escriure:
> 
>>Hello!
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
>>I'm testing the mailing list.  If you're reading this you probably saw
>>my announcement on xdg list: we have a mailing list (well, duh!), CVS
>>repository and a web page: poppler.freedesktop.org.
>>
>>For now, I'm the only person with commit access to the repository, and
>>since the poppler group hasn't been added to LDAP yet, I can't change
>>that right now.  I want to change that in the future, of course, but
>>even when we do open up CVS I'd like to see patches posted to this list
>>first.  This is common practice in many projects, and I think it's
>>especially important for this project, where we're going from having
>>each our own xpdf copy to sharing the same code base.  Poppler will be
>>used in KDE and GNOME PDF viewers and could well end up in CUPS or
>>OpenOffice.org, so we need to make sure we don't add patches or
>>dependencies that are unacceptable for those projects.  The usual
>>disclaimer about simple bug fixes, or other small, trivial patches such
>>as the one from Jeff Muizelaar I just committed applies; these go
>>straight to CVS.
> 
> 
> I think that is a good compromise, but obviously more than 1 person should 
> have CVS commit access so that we are not tied to the availability of 1 
> person.

By all means, that's the plan.  I don't want to make myself the 
bottleneck here.

cheers,
Kristian


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