From 1e88e534e1fffb3f75c6e1674a2b6f875db486e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ted Zlatanov Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:42:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the Git repo instead of the CVS repo and put the Git repo in the news section. --- texi/ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ texi/gnus-coding.texi | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- texi/gnus.texi | 6 +++++- 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog index 4347b1254..59b0886de 100644 --- a/texi/ChangeLog +++ b/texi/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2010-04-17 Teodor Zlatanov + + * gnus.texi (Gnus Versions, Oort Gnus): Mention the Git repo instead of + the CVS repo. Put the Git repo in the news section. + + * gnus-coding.texi (Gnus Maintainance Guide): Fixed title typo. + Removed some mentions of CVS. Mention the new Git repo. + 2010-04-15 Andreas Seltenreich * gnus.texi (Score File Format): Fix typo. Reported by Štěpán Němec. diff --git a/texi/gnus-coding.texi b/texi/gnus-coding.texi index fc88a6d47..fd637ece6 100644 --- a/texi/gnus-coding.texi +++ b/texi/gnus-coding.texi @@ -32,16 +32,16 @@ license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. @titlepage -@title Gnus Coding Style and Maintainance Guide +@title Gnus Coding Style and Maintenance Guide @author by Reiner Steib @insertcopying @end titlepage -@c Obviously this is only a very rudimentary draft. We put it in CVS -@c anyway hoping that it might annoy someone enough to fix it. ;-) -@c Fixing only a paragraph also is appreciated. +@c Obviously this is only a very rudimentary draft. We put it in the +@c repository anyway hoping that it might annoy someone enough to fix +@c it. ;-) Fixing only a paragraph also is appreciated. @ifnottex @node Top @@ -255,15 +255,17 @@ XEmacs 21.1 and up. @section Stable and development versions -The development of Gnus normally is done on the CVS trunk, i.e. there -are no separate branches to develop and test new features. Most of the -time, the trunk is developed quite actively with more or less daily -changes. Only after a new major release, e.g. 5.10.1, there's usually a -feature period of several months. After the release of Gnus 5.10.6 the -development of new features started again on the trunk while the 5.10 -series is continued on the stable branch (v5-10) from which more stable -releases will be done when needed (5.10.8, @dots{}). -@ref{Gnus Development, ,Gnus Development, gnus, The Gnus Newsreader} +The development of Gnus normally is done on the Git repository trunk +as of April 19, 2010 (formerly it was done in CVS; the repository is +at http://git.gnus.org), i.e. there are no separate branches to +develop and test new features. Most of the time, the trunk is +developed quite actively with more or less daily changes. Only after +a new major release, e.g. 5.10.1, there's usually a feature period of +several months. After the release of Gnus 5.10.6 the development of +new features started again on the trunk while the 5.10 series is +continued on the stable branch (v5-10) from which more stable releases +will be done when needed (5.10.8, @dots{}). @ref{Gnus Development, +,Gnus Development, gnus, The Gnus Newsreader} Stable releases of Gnus finally become part of Emacs. E.g. Gnus 5.8 became a part of Emacs 21 (relabeled to Gnus 5.9). The 5.10 series @@ -333,8 +335,12 @@ rather than having to actually fix the code. @item For general Gnus development changes, of course you just make the -change on the Gnus CVS trunk and it goes into Emacs a few years +change on the Gnus Git trunk and it goes into Emacs a few years later... :-) + +With the new Git repository, we'll probably set up something to +automatically synchronize with Emacs when possible. CVS was much less +powerful for this kind of synchronization. @end itemize Of course in any case, if you just can't wait for me to sync your diff --git a/texi/gnus.texi b/texi/gnus.texi index ad9ce88e4..abb84ded4 100644 --- a/texi/gnus.texi +++ b/texi/gnus.texi @@ -27112,6 +27112,10 @@ Gnus 5.10 on May 1st 2003 (24 releases). On the January 4th 2004, No Gnus was begun. +On April 19, 2010 Gnus development was moved to Git. See +http://git.gnus.org for details (http://www.gnus.org will be updated +with the information when possible). + If you happen upon a version of Gnus that has a prefixed name -- ``(ding) Gnus'', ``September Gnus'', ``Red Gnus'', ``Quassia Gnus'', ``Pterodactyl Gnus'', ``Oort Gnus'', ``No Gnus'' -- don't panic. @@ -28508,7 +28512,7 @@ directory is not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy. @c FIXME: `gnus-load' is mentioned in README, which is not included in -@c CVS. We should find a better place for this item. +@c the repository. We should find a better place for this item. @item @code{(require 'gnus-load)} -- 2.25.1