On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:22:05PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > For the rest of the week, I am going to be concentrating on one big > thing: moving our repos to SVN.
Yay! > 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 * I can make some of the devtools changes necessary, but it'll be a little difficult to test until we have the svn repo in place. > Make abs changes * > Make db-scripts changes * How many of these will there be? What were the other plans for db-scripts changes? > Make changes to community ** Do we have to do this? I realize that it will just be more of an excuse to not make changes, but there are a lot more things in here that we don't need to support the official repos. > * 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. Any day is good for me... what me update packages? Jason
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