Knowledge of CVS systems

Dear All,

now, that we have all that relevant/important people "on board", may I
repeat my concern of a few weeks ago:

Right now it seems, that there is a number of individuals, companies and
institutions /taking/ from the FLOSS sources, but it seems to me, that
nearly nobody in Vietnam /contributes back/ to it. Free Software is about
"Sharing", which means not only "taking", but also "giving".

There are surely several reasons:
- language skills (and fears, that the limited ones would not be enough)
- habits (communicating and giving to absolutely unknown strangers)
- ...

I wonder, whether one reason is, that people are not used to handle the
often-used CVS system (see an explanation below)? Sure, the instructions
can be found in the Net, but - face it - to have somebody explaining it and
walking together through the steps is different from reading some
instructions: Most of what you learn at University could also be read in
some books ...

If a lack of familiarity with the CVS system is really a reason, then I
would propose to work with the "education subgroup" of this list on how to
overcome that problem, e.g. by inviting somebody to travel to some
Universities etc., stay there for a few days, and teach lecturers and
students the "HOWTO"...

I would be especially interested in feedback to this question from the
Universities and those companies who do some OSS programming already.

Best Regards,
Stefan

Here some info about the CVS:

>About CVS
>
>CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a tool used by many software
>developers to manage changes within their source code tree. CVS provides
>the means to store not only the current version of a piece of source code,
>but a record of all changes (and who made those changes) that have
>occurred to that source code. Use of CVS is particularly common on
>projects with multiple developers, since CVS ensures changes made by one
>developer are not accidentally removed when another developer posts their
>changes to the source tree.
>
>Information about accessing this CVS repository may be found in our
>document titled, "Basic Introduction to CVS and SourceForge.net (SF.net)
>Project CVS Services".
>
>In order to access a CVS repository, you must install a special piece of
>software called a CVS client; CVS clients are available for most any
>operating system. Information about CVS client software may be found in
>our document titled, "Basic Introduction to CVS and SourceForge.net
>(SF.net) Project CVS Services".

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