[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT gets more and more unstable (too much releases)

Matt Schuckmann matthew_schuckmann at amat.com
Fri May 20 23:12:44 BST 2005


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Which corrupted binaries bug are you refering to, the corrupted binaries
when a file is deleted? or something else?

I suppose my question proves the point of needing a bug database.

Matt S.


"merkle" <news at merkleonline.de> wrote in message
news:mailman.92.1116618807.32221.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> Hi there,
>
> some observations from previous threads of this month (I don't quote
> them all)
>
> - we have more and more background noise because of some missing basic
> project policies I think we could avoid much noise with a better and
> cleaner documentation, e.g. bug database, release notes, fewer and more
> stable releases, etc.
>
> - we need a bug database (where has the mantis bug database gone ???).
> Every project needs a bugdatabase why not use bugzilla ?
> just browsing the news/mailing list is rediculus and very timeconsuming
> (I have NOT the time to follow the mailing list every day)
>
> - we need fewer and more stable releases. I think releasing versions
> with build numbers does not make sense
> Please release fewer versions and better tested versions. also it is not
> obvious which release has with bugs and which bugs are fixed...
>
> - bugs like the "currupting binaries" may not happend. It has to be
> verified via a testsuite that such things don't happen.
> The informations we put into cvs are just to important that i can afford
> to loose information just because upgrading cvsnt
> (and the new cvsnt has this bug.) Btw. what is that status of the bug.
> My newsreader does not show any resolution of this bug ?
>
> - old archives for binaries have been removed. We are e.g. still using
> 2.0.51d here without problems and the installer has disapeared from the
> page. Why ? I don't want to rebuild this from source, since i can't
> guarantee that i have the same build environment as you and so the
> resulting binary might differ from your.
>
> - I was a user of UNIX cvs and switched to cvsnt about the 2.0.30
> releases. Up to that time cvsnt was stable and I was very satisfied.
> Now in the meantime, things seems to get more and more chaotic (or
> dynamically) so using cvsnt for a production environment is problematic.
> I am really considering switching back to UNIX cvs or maybe subversion
> (which is less dynamic and better documented, at least concerning
> release notes, what has changed etc)
>
> kind regards,
> Bernhard.
>





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