Great news, makes reviewing patches easier

Posted Dec 21, 2004 10:14 UTC (Tue) by jfs (guest, #7140)
Parent article: Fedora CVS repository open

I believe having an open CVS repository is great news both to those that are interested in reviewing what Fedora produces (in terms of patches) and those that want to contribute to the project. It certainly makes it easier (at least for me) to review the patches than mirroring the whole distribution (or SRPMS) and, one by one, reviewing which patches have been introduced. It is also much lighter (since the original source code is not included in the CVS as the .spec defines where to retrieve it from).

I've already found some interesting (security) patches I will forward to Debian's BTS for review so that we include them in our packages too. I've done this for some packages (like sysklogd, see Debian Bug #281448 and #278892) and I'm eager to review other packages and try to combine (in Debian) the great work done by other free software developers and has not been adopted yet upstream.