On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/1, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For the rest of the week, I am going to be concentrating on one big > > thing: moving our repos to SVN. > > Finally! Huge thanks for stepping into this! :-) > > > > 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. > > :-/ > I would prefer to keep history, but if there's no (easy enought) way to do > this > - I'm fine without history, especially when CVS archive is kept for some time > (BTW, this is a good example where ChangeLog file with important changes > comes handy, especially for important packages).
We all wish we could keep history, but it's going to be nearly unusable and going to make the conversion process take obscenely longer. I have talked it over with Dan and Jason, as far as the best way to do this conversion, and we all agree that losing the history is a better cost than the added effort for keeping it. The CVS archive will be kept as long as we need it (years?). > What I'm concerned about is the status of community. > Scripts seem to be pretty old (don't understand -arch suffix yet). > If our AUR heros can move this to SVN in pretty short time (few days?) > - that would be awesome. > I can help with aurtools/devtools modification/testing > and changing guidelines for TUs. One step at a time please. The community scripts are my next point of attack, so lets just stick with the SVn conversion for right now. I am already talking over the technical details with Paul and Simo, and switching to svn is easy. Path of least resistance. The next thing I tackle like this will be the community management scripts, so don't fear.
