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[gaim-migrate @ 16030] Change CVS to SVN in a bunch of places, and use "2.0.0dev" as the version string. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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+If you plan to use gaim SVN, PLEASE read this message in its entirety!
+
+Gaim is a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular release schedule.
+Due to the rate of gaim development, SVN undergoes frequent bursts of
+massive changes, often leaving behind brokenness and partial
+functionality while the responsible developers rewrite some portion of
+code or seek to add new features.
+
+What this all boils down to is that SVN _WILL_ sometimes be broken.
+Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested in
+personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
+assistance from the developers!) avoid SVN and use releases.  Since
+releases will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using
+the newest, shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having
+to deal with ugly development bugs that we already know about but
+haven't gotten around to fixing.
+
+If you are interested in hacking on gaim, please read README and
+HACKING, and take note of the issues in PROGRAMMING_NOTES.  (Note that
+they may be somewhat out of date at times.) Win32 developers, please
+read README.mingw.
+
+By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  Not
+all parts of gaim have yet been documented, but the major subsystems
+are falling fast.  If you have doxygen, you can use the Doxyfile in
+the toplevel directory to generate pretty documentation.  Otherwise
+(or even if you do!), the header files for each subsystem contain
+documentation for the functions they contain.  For instance,
+conversation.h contains documentation for the entire
+gaim_conversation_* API, and account.h contains documentation for the
+gaim_account_* API.
+
+If you have questions, please feel free to contact the gaim developers
+by email at [e-mail], on IRC at
+irc.freenode.net in #gaim, or via the sourceforge forums at
+http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim.  Please do as much homework
+as you can before contacting us; the more you know about your
+question, the faster and more effectively we can help you!
+
+Send patches to [e-mail] or post them in the
+Sourceforge forums at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim.