[Spread-users] CVS access to Spread

[Michal Miskin-Amir]

Hello Everyone,

Recently, we saw several questions regarding CVS access to Spread.  =20
I want to assure everyone that we are definitely interested in making=20
it easier to work with Spread and contribute to Spread development,=20
and we are not ignoring your comments.=20
We do have ample resources at the CNDS lab to support an outside=20
development community. We are working on various ways to support this,=20
and will update you shortly. =20

As for CVS access: We can now provide CVS access to these people who=20
are interested. Please email us directly at spread@spread.org to request =

a user ID/password.

Some of you have been sending us fixes and patches: We are also working=20
through some licensing issues so that we could easily accept your=20
contributions and release them with Spread. You will hear from us in the =

next few days. We will also post more explanations on how to contribute=20
on the spread.org web site.

The Spread project was started over 7 years ago. For many years, we did=20
not  see much interest in the Spread project outside the research=20
community. Recently, we noticed an increased interest in Spread, and the =

features it provides. This is great. The positive feedback from the =
outside=20
users convinced us to release Spread as an open source this summer.=20

Involvement of the outside development community is very important to =
us.=20
Many of you have much experience with Open Source projects, and we are=20
interested in hearing your comments, while we work through the various=20
issues related to this new phase in the life of Spread.

Thanks,
Michal