[M3devel] SVN migration, also promotion

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> For a small community of volunteers (I don't think any of us are
> making any money actually maintaining CM3), I don't think we are doing
> too badly.  We are much smaller than other projects I am involved in
> (jikesrvm.org for example), which make about the same degree of
> forward progress as the CM3 community is doing.  So, I applaud the
> efforts of everyone involved.  The new regression framework is a
> *huge* improvement in preserving, maintaining, and enhancing the
> reliability of CM3 on many more platforms than most other projects
> support.  If someone (I don't have the time) would like to explore
> migration to SVN and trac I would not object (I happily use both these
> systems in other projects), but the biggest piece of work in any CM3
> transition will be to preserve what we have without too much turmoil.
> I am leery of making any move that will fatally disturb the fine work
> everyone is doing.  I am sure Dragiša meant his suggestions to be
> constructive criticism rather than any kind of attack on individuals
> or decisions made over the long history of the CM3 project.  Remember,
> this project has its roots in a system that was started almost 20
> years ago, before anyone knew what open-source or the internet or Web
> really were.  It is a testament to the staying power of the language
> and implementation that we are still up and running and I think as
> healthy as we have ever been!  I know of very few open-source projects
> that can claim the length of history that Modula-3 and CM3 have.  I
> encourage everyone to stay involved, channel their enthusiasm, and
> make progress happen.

Indeed! Rereading my mail, it sounds a bit too negative; I didn't
want to discourage anyone. I'm also very satisfied with the current
thriving of the project. Keep up all the good work!

Olaf
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