[ns] improving the ns development

[Neundorf Alexander <Alexander.Neundorf.extern@icn.siemens.de>]

Hi,

I'm for some weeks now subscribed to this mailinglist, and I see that many people are working or looking for similar things. Enhancements to ns are distributed as packages/patches to special versions of ns, so it is hard to get them going with other versions. Things looking like bugs are found but can be fixed only locally. And since they are fixed only locally nobody really knows whether it was the right fix. Some things in the code are quite.... hmm... tricky.

I want to suggest a different development model for ns2. Don't expect anything fancy now, just the "let's do what everybody nowadays does" ;-)
So, to make it short, let's put ns2 on a cvs server (whereever, if there is no other choice SourceForge).
This way we would have more people who really know the code, more fixes would be committed to the code, more new features, new introduced bugs would be found more or less instantly and so on  (speaking from my experience from kde cvs :-)

What do you think ?
Actually who is responsible for this ?

Let's make ns2 even better than it is now !

Bye
Alex