Developer's Etiquette

The following are some explicit rules that we developers on the AIM project follow in our use of the CVS repository:

1. Keep other developers informed about what you are up to by posting to the developer's mailing list Aimmath-developers@lists.sourceforge.net.
2. Before embarking on making major changes to the code, discuss your ideas with the other developers via the mailing list and get their approval.
3. Commit your changes frequently.
4. After having committed your changes send a notification to Aimmath-developers@lists.sourceforge.net explaining what the changes were for.
5. Make your code legible and be liberal with comments.
6. If you make a change to AiM change the documentation at the same time.
7. Keep an eye on the bug tracker and the feature request tracker.
8. All development takes place on the HEAD branch. You are allowed to create personal branches in CVS if you need them for some reason. But please merge back into HEAD as soon as you have something useful in your branch.