2. The CVS Repository

If you become part of the active development team, you will eventually need write access to our holy grail, the CVS repository. One of the team members will need to set this up for you. Please read this chapter completely before accessing via CVS.

2.1. Access to CVS

The project's CVS repository is hosted on SourceForge. For historical reasons, the CVS server is called ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net, the repository is called ijbswa, and the source tree module is called current.

2.2. Branches

Within the CVS repository, there are modules and branches. As mentioned, the sources are in the current "module". Other modules are present for platform specific issues. There is a webview of the CVS hierarchy at http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/, which might help with visualizing how these pieces fit together.

At one time there were two distinct branches: stable and unstable. The more drastic changes were to be in the unstable branch. These branches have now been merged to minimize time and effort of maintaining two branches.

2.3. CVS Commit Guidelines

The source tree is the heart of every software project. Every effort must be made to ensure that it is readable, compilable and consistent at all times. We expect anyone with CVS access to strictly adhere to the following guidelines:

Basic Guidelines, for all branches: