CVS error messages: Failed to create lock directory

I've been using CVS for a few days now to keep track of my revisions in my Django scripts. Prior to CVS, I've mostly been making copies/annotating/numbering my scripts before doing any modifications (very tedious, very unwieldy). So setting up CVS repo took out the grunt work of tracking my code.

CVS compared to it's more illustrious counterparts, is old school if not the most ancient revision control system of the lot. But for on-and-off weekend coding projects that need simple versioning system, CVS it is.

Anyways, all nice and good, except that I've been getting this irritating error messages every time I cvs into my repository:

Error Messages when trying to run "cvs update" from another user.
cvs update: Updating CVSROOT
cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/CVSROOT' (/cvs/CVSROOT/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/CVSROOT'
cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Turns out that when I first "cvs import" my files, the default permission was set to the user who initially created the repository. So the problem is really of 'gene' user not having write access to the files 'owned' by the first user who created the repo. The solution I found here and here indicated that you need to setup proper group ownership for the repo. That means make 'gene' user and all other users who'll be using cvs be part of the group that will owned the repo. In this case, just create a group called 'developers' or any other group name, and have all subdirectories beneath the root CVS directory owned by this group then setgid all the subdirectories (ie. chmod -R g+ws). Voilà! works beautifully.

There's heaps of open-source software revision control system, if you want a Fedora/CVS setup, here's a good tutorial.