Further info

As I said before, I'm not much of a CVS guru. I have found

   http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/stable

to be a helpful in doing CVS stuff.

For SourceForge, everything I know about it came from:

   https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=1

The companion piece of this guide is the atlas contributer guide, found in ATLAS/doc/atlas_contrib.pdf of the tarfile. You really need to know that before doing much with this guide.

Extract is explained at:

   http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~whaley/extract/Extract.html