[vtk-developers] Fwd: vtkOFFReader / VTK archive system

[Sean McBride]

On 10/16/09 7:58 AM, David Doria said:

>The IJ is nice, but it seems rare (from my limited experience) that someone
>actual improves and resubmits code. I feel like developers would be much
>more likely to make a few improvements and then simply type "commit" than to
>repackage the whole thing for resubmission including updates to the tex
>paper etc. It also seems a bit silly to make a submission to such a journal
>with a 100 line source file and an even shorter "article" simply saying
>"this class can read basic OFF files". If that's the recommended process
>though, I'll partake.

I'm inclined to agree here.

>Another thing (@David Gobbi) - sending these things to the list (as I did
>and you recommended) is a good idea, but I frequently hear people
>complaining about how the list is hard to search, etc. Also, the link to the
>files will certainly die at some point, at which point it is clearly no
>longer useful. To use the mailing list for archival, I guess you'd have to
>copy/paste code into an email, which seems like a bad idea. If not a Review
>directory, then what about an ftp server or something where at least these
>things can be archived in a semi-maintained place (at least one that won't
>accidentally die)?

The bug database seems appropriate here.  You can attach patches and
even entirely new classes.

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