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From: Josh Vermaas (vermaas2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2014 - 13:33:15 CDT

To be fair, very few people have commit privileges to the CVS, so there
aren't any benefits to using git or mercurial. cvs checkout and cvs
update are pretty much the only commands I ever use when keeping up with
VMD source, and if I have changes I'd like to see in VMD, I write them
up and go through the usual channels (vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu). For small things
(Angstrom was misspelled once), the fixes are pretty much immediate, but
for new features, it can take a month or two for additions to make it
through quality/utility control to make sure it doesn't break anything
and that someone other than me might possibly find it useful.
-Josh Vermaas

On 7/9/14, 1:29 PM, Vlastimil Zíma wrote:
> Hi Axel,
>
> I have no intentions of (re-)distributing the source code of VMD, but
> I'm not into learning CVS. I believe it's understandable since last
> version was released in 2008.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your answers.
>
> Vlastik
>
> 2014-07-09 17:15 GMT+02:00 Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:akohlmey_at_gmail.com>>:
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Vlastimil Zíma
> <zima_at_karlov.mff.cuni.cz <mailto:zima_at_karlov.mff.cuni.cz>> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > does anybody know how to contribute to VMD? I have found several
> minor bugs
> > in last years, but I never report them since I never find out
> how to do so.
> > I haven't found any document about contribution other than
> sparse notes in
> > FAQ.
> >
> > I'd like to know
> > * How do I find if bug was already reported?
>
> near impossible.
>
> > * How to report bug?
>
> send a bug report to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>
> > * How to check that my fix didn't break anything else? Are
> there any tests
> > available?
>
> depends on what kind of fix this is.
>
> > * How to share a patch?
>
> send an e-mail to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>
> > * Is there any official repository with VMD source code in git
> or other
> > modern VCS?
>
> VMD is (still) managed in CVS repository. a read-only version of that
> is available. please note the licensing conditions of VMD, which put
> restrictions on how the sources can be "exported".
>
> axel.
>
> > Thanks in advance
> > Vlastik
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com <mailto:akohlmey_at_gmail.com>
> http://goo.gl/1wk0
> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia
> PA, USA
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>
>