Re: [Help-glpk] source code repository?

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Robbie Morrison <robbie <at> actrix.co.nz> writes:

>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-glpk/2010-12/threads.html#00039
> 
> A public repository would encourage contributions.
> But it would also require some policy on commit
> access and some additional workload for monitoring
> the various changes.

Commit access probably doesn't need to be formalized, at least for a while.  In
most projects, people submit patches to be applied by core group (right now just
Andrew, I would guess); often the patch sits in a bug database and gets worked
over collectively.  

After a longish probationary period the core group decides to give consistent
contributors commit access (informally, even on large projects, or with a simple
+/- vote).  But projects work fine even if most contributors don't have commit
and just submit patches.

> There is a slowly growing expectation that
> software projects should be easy to contribute to.

Yeah, it works better that way -- more free labor.  Though it does mean patches
have to be evaluated.
 
> In terms of systems, 'git' would seem a reasonable
> choice.  I understand it has become more Windows
> friendly over time.

If you are geek enough to make math models and use the command line, git should
be easy on any system.

> GNU Savannah would, I guess, be the obvious
> code host:
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah

Yep.  I think they default to Mercurial, which is OK too.