Cyclic Thanks CVS Contributors

CVS is not just a Cyclic effort; it involves collaborations of various sorts between many individuals and organizations. Here are some of them:

Steve Willer has been doing the CVS community a great service by answering questions on the bug-cvs mailing list and passing along information from Cyclic about commonly-reported bugs. We value contributions from outside Cyclic in the areas of organizing and distributing this kind of information.

Pascal Molli maintains the CVS web site, http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html. The web site contains information about the latest version of CVS, copies of CVS documentation, pointers to related software, and other useful information.

David Klann maintains the info-cvs MINI-FAQ and posts it to the list regularly. It has pointers to relevant web sites and other commonly-requested information.

David W. Eaton maintains the comp.software.config-mgmt FAQ. This is large task since he is trying to keep up with the entire configuration management field, not just CVS. However, we have found him to be responsive when we suggest updates; many other FAQ maintainers are not nearly as successful in keeping on top of this.

The CVS developers are a group of 18 people, within and without Cyclic, who take on the task of deciding what changes should go into the "official" CVS. Many of them are also actively involved in writing CVS code themselves. Special thanks are due to Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support; recently he has been providing a vast number of performance improvements, bug-fixes, and other enhancements.

A variety of people outside the CVS developer group have also contributed changes to CVS; see the ChangeLog files in the CVS distribution for a complete list.

Many people not mentioned have also contributed; it would be impractical to try to list all contributions, both past and current.

Cyclic views a vibrant CVS community as a complement, rather than a competitor, to our support contracts. Volunteers may provide some of the same services that support contracts do, but we go beyond what volunteers are likely to offer. Furthermore, anything which makes CVS more capable and more widely used benefits us by increasing the size of the CVS pie.

Cyclic Software sells support for CVS, the cross-platform, easy to administer client/server configuration management system. For more information on Cyclic and CVS, see our web page at http://www.cyclic.com.