CVS usage guidelines

[Stuart Ellis]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 17:41 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I have a rough draft of CVS guidelines on the wiki.  
> 
>   http://fedoralegacy.org/wiki/DocsProject/CvsUsage
> 
> This is definitely a work in progress, and I would welcome comments and
> suggestions.

As Karsten said during the meeting, there may be a risk of having dead
modules in CVS if we do create too freely.  Having thought about it some
more, perhaps production of a draft (in plain-text or DocBook) ought to
be a qualification for CVS entry.  If somebody stumps up an actual piece
of text then they've probably got the stick-at-it-ness to learn any
technical skills they don't already have, and see the work through.
Somebody without a real interest may disqualify themselves by simply not
producing a draft, even when we don't impose any other barriers to
entry.

After looking at the tracker bugs I now feel that we might even be
better off not giving bugzilla entries to proposals without an actual
draft document, to keep our development systems from becoming cluttered
with (more) inactive proposals (see separate mail to the list on
tracking documents - thread on "Random Topics Question").