There is nothing stopping distributions from putting the released code into their packages and distros. Why would having a public CVS matter? Thousands of projects don't have public CVS, and I've described the reasons why having an open CVS is actually a problem for the maintainers.

There's no real reaosn for unreleased code to go into the distributions, since we never get bug reports or patches back from those distributions or their users anyway.

I'm still stewing on a proper solution, but so far none has come to light.

Just one more friendly opinion: If the removal of the snapshots and the closing of anonymous CVS is permanent, I predict that this is the death sentence for pilot-link.

Sorry, but if the software will not be included in the distros anymore (and it won't if the distributors have no access to the latest code), nobody will use pilot-link anymore.

There was an almost two year gap between 0.11.x and 0.12pre releases and now almost a year between _snapshots_. This means, that all palm devices newer than, say, two years are worthless with Linux.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I really apprecitate the work done on pilot-link and I personally would hate to see all this work wasted. But I'm afraid that this will happen.

I was very happy with the Fedora 0.12pre packages (worked perfectly with my T|X) and now I can't sync anymore. Not acceptable from a user point of view.

Maybe it would help to release snapshots with a fat warning more often (so people can test) and refuse support if a distro uses a snapshot?

Time to reopen CVS?

root@gentoo:/ > rpm -q --changelog pilot-link|head -n 15
* Wed Apr 19 2006 Than Ngo  2:0.11.8-12.4.fc5
- rebuilt

* Sat Apr 15 2006 Than Ngo  2:0.11.8-12.3.fc5
- fix pilot-xfer crash on missing device node #186779
- don't include unnecessary man page #185147

* Thu Mar 30 2006 Than Ngo  2:0.11.8-12.2.fc5
- rebuild to get rid of libpisock.so.9

* Thu Mar 30 2006 Than Ngo  2:0.11.8-12.1.fc5
- downgrade to stable release 0.11.8

* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating  - 1:0.12.0-0.pre4.5.2.1
- bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)