Maxima CVS is up at Sourceforge [Fwd: [ alexandria-Support Requests-477199 ] CVS import request: maxima]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 18:14, C Y wrote:
> 
> --- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> > I am pleased to announce that the Sourceforge Maxima CVS repository
> > is
> > now up. You can get to it from the project page,
> > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima>;.
> 
> Excellent!  Now we need to get a web page, maybe something a little
> nicer than the original at UT?

Indeed, I was about to ask if have a volunteer to work on the web
page(s). It sounds to me like you just did...

> > Members of this list who would like write access to the repository
> > will
> > need to get a Sourceforge account.
> 
> I've already got one - I'm known on Sourceforge as starseeker.  There's
> not much point in adding me, however, unless we also upload the
> documentation - I'm not even close to being able to do anything useful
> with Maxima itself.  Is that possible just by creating a new top level
> directory in cvs and doing an update, or do we need to contact
> sourceforge again?

I've added you to the developers list. I think you should check out the
maxima module and add your manual to the doc directory. The doc
directory will need some reorganization for 5.9, but we can worry about
that later.

> > It is my inclination to grant write access liberally. However, people
> > should discuss non-trivial changes *before* they are committed.
> 
> We might want to be careful about this one - better that only the
> people actually working on docs or code have access, just as a matter
> of sound policy.

Of course. I meant that people who want to work on the docs or code will
be given access without too much trouble.

--Jim