Is there a crash course for using the Drupal CVS? I've applied for my CVS account and uploaded my first theme. I'm finding that the CVS system is, to put it bluntly, a pain in the ass. I followed all the links in the CVS account maintenance email I received. I've also searched these forums. There is nothing that is simply written with all the information necessary to use the CVS system and contribute. I am a computer geek and a web designer (although not a programmer) and it is taking me more time than it should to figure out how to contribute.
This is what I'd like to see and I'd be willing to write up a guide myself:
1. Requirements: What is necessary to contribute to Drupal CVS. i.e. that you need to sign up for an account, what you need to interface with the CVS (does it require client software installed on my computer? because I'm not interested in dealing with command line to maintain my contributions) etc.
2. Guided instructions: It doesn't have to be baby language but it would be nice to have some step by step instructions for contributing to CVS. What a new contributor can expect to see and how they go about adding and maintaining releases. It is amazing how much quicker people can learn things when the instructions are actually relevant to what they are seeing on screen.
3. Then at the end, some more terminology and CVS theory could be added.
DDEV is the official local development tool of Drupal. And like Drupal, DDEV depends on the support of the open source community.
