Okay, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm going to put my Vince Lombardi coaching hat on and pick on this statement:
I would love to contribute to Arc if it was available for example via distributed source control (like Git).
What on Earth are you talking about? Arc is 4600 lines of code! Steve Wozniak used to type in more than that by hand every time the power went out on his Apple I! You could do the source control using papyrus and it still wouldn't be a showstopper!
Okay, I'm taking the hat off now. Admittedly, the only reason I'm exhorting you to get started is that it's easier than finding the time to learn Arc myself. ;)
The distributed nature of Git makes it easy to maintain my local patches that Git will attempt to use even against newer versions of Arc as they get released and other folks would be able for example to pull in changes from my repo (and I could from theirs) if it solved an urgent problem before PG could incorporate them into the codebase. It simply makes it easier and encourages collaboration. Certainly not necessary however.
Maybe I should create a repository and mirror PG's releases for a while.
I would love to contribute to Arc if it was available for example via distributed source control (like Git).
What on Earth are you talking about? Arc is 4600 lines of code! Steve Wozniak used to type in more than that by hand every time the power went out on his Apple I! You could do the source control using papyrus and it still wouldn't be a showstopper!
Okay, I'm taking the hat off now. Admittedly, the only reason I'm exhorting you to get started is that it's easier than finding the time to learn Arc myself. ;)