On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:09:42 +0300, Vahur Krouverk <vkr### [at] starmanee>
wrote:
> Seems like there is quite interest in this proposal. To be more concrete:
> 1. Is out there anyone, who can provide (CVS?) server for unofficial 
> POV-Ray releases?

If you mean such a server for 4.0 rewrite it will be probably holded by the
team somehow. But you mean 3.5 patches, right ? I'm trying to do PoPOV as good
as I can but I'm limited with family requirements and company tasks. I can't
set up CVS in my own domain (art.pl) becouse art.pl is special domain here in
Poland and has special rules. But I can ask my friend to create some account
on the same server my abx.art.pl is located on. That's what I can do.

> 2. Is there anyone, who agrees to be 
> 'buildmaster'/'maintainer'/'whatever-you-call-him/her', who has 
> knowledge of version control systems (CVS?), who has development tools 
> (compilers and computers to compile POVRay (for at least for Linux and 
> Windows??)) and has sufficient time to build releases for POV-Ray 
> patches, maintain CVS repository (merge patches with main branch), etc.

Being maintainer on such system is a big responsibility. Such a person should
also has knowledge about povray itself and has some commercial packages as
POV-Team use. But in general being maintainer of such creation seems larger
responsibility than being POV-Team Member.

> 3 (probably most important?). Is there interest among POV-Ray 'hackers' 
> to have such 'united' version of POV-Ray patches? '

If not I hope PoPOV will be sufficent and allow quiet but effective work on
4.0.

> 4. Is there enough people ready to try/use/test POV-Ray versions, built 
> by such approach (buildmaster can't be only person for such task!)

Count me in.

ABX

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