cvs

The giants of the project module and Drupal.org's CVS/packaging system (dww, hunmonk, aclight) plan to add the ability of installation profiles to have their modules packaged with them, I understand. This will be a huge step forward for their value to end users.

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CVS, or Concurrent Versions System, was the de-facto standard open source version control system for a long time. It came up in the late 80s and grew popular enough to manage the source repositories of virtually all open source projects until only a few years ago (when Subversion started to take over). It's still widely used, including on drupal.org, but hardly deployed on newly created repositories anymore. Development is strictly fixed to a centralized client-server methology, and while distributed version control systems (or Subversion with svk) strive to make a checkout independent from the server, with CVS you're completely dependent on a fast and reliable connection to upstream.

In summary, there's little surprises in this CVS coverage, especially for the resident drupal.org admins. But necessary nevertheless, if only for later reference. Obviously, no new requirements for the API module were found, as the CVS setup on drupal.org together with the Project module is the status quo at the moment.

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If you are new to CVS and Drupal, and if you prefer to use command line/bash(as me) instead of GUI based CVS programs. Then this guide is for you! For windows users, download greggles great lesson on CVS.
This guide is really quick & dirty. But I like it this way. So I hope you will as well:)

There are basically 5 stages:

1. Download drupal HEAD
2. Edit file
3. Test your patch on your local webserver
4. Create a patch
5. And apply the patch to drupal.org using your webserver

Here's an event to track the class about CVS and the Project module on Drupal.org. If you've always wondered what everyone is talking about when they say "dww is the coolest for the new project release system" then this is for you: dww will be joining the call. If you have a module or theme that you would like to release on Drupal.org then you will learn how to add it, branch it, tag it, and create a project node.

Take a look at the class agenda to see the topics that will be covered.

Here are some directories in CVS that do not get any love and by love I mean downloads.

It could be for lots of reasons why they are not downloaded, but the bottom line is that they are not popular and could be considered for removal from CVS and/or Drupal.org project pages. These are only the directories in contributions for modules/, themes/ theme-engines/ and translations/