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<h2 id="sec-history">The History of ViewVC</h2>

<p>The ViewVC software was inspired by <a

href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/cvsweb/">cvsweb</a>

(originally written by Bill Fenner and then further developed by <a

href="mailto:zeller@think.de">Henner Zeller</a>). Greg Stein

wanted to make some changes and updates, but cvsweb was implemented

in Perl. He wrote:</p>

<blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"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 <em>way</em> beyond the simple changes that I had

envisioned."</blockquote>

<p>So ViewVC started out as just a port of the cvsweb script,

originally called ViewCVS. Along the way, it has had numerous

cleanups and other modifications, a process simplified by the

elegance of the <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>

language.</p>

<p>In 2001, the ViewCVS project was moved to <a

href="http://www.sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>, a popular

software collaboration environment. There the project continued to

mature, releasing several stable-yet-pre-1.0 versions. In 2002,

C. Michael Pilato began implementing support for Subversion in

ViewCVS, building atop the beginnings of a version control

abstraction layer begun by Lucas Bruand. Along the way, Russell

Yanofsky delivered large improvements to that abstraction, and to

ViewCVS as whole. ViewCVS was well on its way to releasing a 1.0

version.</p>

<p>Of course, now that ViewCVS could browse Subversion repositories as

easily as CVS ones, the ViewCVS name seemed inappropriate. Also,

SourceForge's lack of support for Subversion (which was already

well past its 1.0 release, and becoming hugely popular) in its

project version control offerings was annoying ViewCVS primary

developers. So in late 2005, the decision was made to rename the

project to ViewVC, to convert the project's CVS data to Subversion,

and to move the project and its Subversion data to <a

href="http://www.tigris.org">Tigris.org</a>.</p>

<p>Today, ViewVC is being developed at <a

href="http://viewvc.tigris.org">http://viewvc.tigris.org</a> by a

small community of folks</a>.</p>

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<h2 id="sec-viewcvs-group">The ViewCVS Group</h2>

<p>The ViewCVS Group is an informal group of people working on and

developing the ViewVC package. The current set of members are

listed below with some of their notable contributions:</p>

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<dt><a href="http://www.lyra.org/greg/">Greg Stein</a></dt>

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<dd>original python port of Henner Zeller's cvsweb, secure popen

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implementation, configuration file implementation, rcsparse

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module, and EZT template engine</dd>

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<dt>Jay Painter</dt>

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<dd>CVSdb query engine</dd>

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<dt>Tanaka Akira</dt>

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<dd>enscript colorization and tarball generation

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<dd>CvsGraph support, log_table template, regular expression search,

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and paging capability</dd>

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<dt>Peter Funk</dt>

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<dd>standalone server, blimp logo, and numerous improvements to

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ViewVC's interfaces and documentation</dd>

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<dt>Lucas Bruand</dt>

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<dd>C++ RCS parser (tparse) and vclib module for supporting new

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version control systems</dd>

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<dt><a href="http://www.cmichaelpilato.com/">C. Michael Pilato</a></dt>

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<dd>Subversion support, root_as_url alternative URL scheme,

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templatization work, website design, documentation</dd>

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<dt>Russell Yanofsky</dt>

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<dd>Windows support and the sapi module for supporting multiple web

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server interfaces, sweeping abstraction and UI improvements</dd>

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<dt>James Henstridge</dt>

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<dd>integrated query interface, support for querying Subversion

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repositories, caching support, CSS formatting, and the EZT

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"define" directive</dd>

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<h2 id="sec-site-credits">About This Site</h2>

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<p>The ViewVC website was designed by <a

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href="http://www.cmichaelpilato.com/">C. Michael Pilato</a>. All

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HTML was hand-edited in Emacs, and the little splashes of graphical

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goodness owe their existence to Adobe PhotoShop. Textual content

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for the site is mostly the work of Greg Stein, but has been tweaked

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through the ages by various ViewVC contributors.</p>

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