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The History of ViewCVSThe ViewCVS software was inspired by cvsweb (originally written by Bill Fenner and then further developed by Henner Zeller). Greg Stein wanted to make some changes and updates, but cvsweb was implemented in Perl. He wrote: "While I can manage some Perl, cvsweb was rather unmaintainable for me. So I undertook the task to convert the software to Python. As a result, I've actually been able to go way beyond the simple changes that I had envisioned." So ViewCVS started out as just a port of the cvsweb script. Along the way, it has had numerous cleanups and other modifications, a process simplified by the elegance of the Python language. In 2001, the project was moved to SourceForge, a popular software collaboration environment. Today, ViewCVS is being developed in that environment by a community of folks. The ViewCVS GroupThe ViewCVS Group is an informal group of people working on and developing the ViewCVS package. The current set of members are listed below with some of their notable contributions:
About This SiteThe ViewCVS website was designed by C. Michael Pilato. All HTML was hand-edited in Emacs, and the little splashes of graphical goodness owe their existence to Adobe PhotoShop. Textual content for the site is mostly the work of Greg Stein, but has been tweaked through the ages by various ViewCVS contributors. |