Thursday works best for me, but I'm not objectionable to it happening any other day (since I'm busy Friday night)
As I mentioned on Jabber, I've got an rsync-based ABS script totally ready for a testrun or two. In fact, I think I'll commit it to the ABS repo tonight so's you can have a look-see if you want. I'm still unsure how to generate the rsync repo to pull from. Would a db-scripts patch work best, do you think? We can co-ordinate on this if you want, I'm perfectly willing to do the work for that. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the rest of the week, I am going to be concentrating on one big > thing: moving our repos to SVN. > > Why is this important, after all the stuff I've been griping about, > you may ask? Because it's a 'blocker'. It's the most low-level > building block for a lot of the other changes I'd like to see done > regarding our repository management > > So, here's the plan. I need one day where we make the switch over. It > will be rocky and annoying for that day, but it is also a break for > all of you > > Here are the steps that this will involve: > Set all the cvs repos to RO, so that we don't have any accidents > Convert everything to svn > Make the necessary structure changes > Make devtools changes * > Make abs changes * > Make db-scripts changes * > Make changes to community ** > > * Can be done before hand, without a new package release > ** Paul and Simo, in need your input regarding doing this for > community as well. I have not looked at the scripts in a long time, > but how much effort do you think this would take? > > Here is the end result, repo created ages ago by Jason[1]: > http://projects.xennet.org/svnarch/ > > It is a tad large, but SVN is nice in that it allows us to only check > out subdirs we want, so you can checkout just your packages (see > jason's archco tool[1]) > > We *will* lose history during this transition. It's something I'm > willing to live with, as this is not code history. We will still > archive CVS for posterity. > > So, what do I need from you? Nothing. I'm making this easy in that I > will do all the work. I just need one thing: give me a day when it is > best. When you all want to take a mini-vacation and do no packaging at > all. If no one has a good day for this, I will probably do it on > Thursday or Friday. > > Thanks, > Aaron > > 1: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002308.html > >
