On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Eric Bélanger<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> This is part informational, and part not. >>> >>> We have a donated server from SevenL networks that has sat mostly >>> unused up until now. What we would like to do is more the AUR and >>> community on to that machine, so that TUs can get real (limited) shell >>> accounts and the people managing this side of the project get a bit >>> more control. >>> >>> As far as I know, things are almost ready to go, but what we need to >>> do is setup a good time to "freeze" the AUR and community so we can >>> switch over the DNS and change checkout locations. >>> >>> Once this is complete, we can move forward with switching community to >>> SVN and using the official dbscripts for managing the repo. This way >>> you guys can get your own testing repo too! >>> >>> Sooo... the list, as I see it: >>> * Decide on a date and time for the move >>> * Get SSH keys from all TUs >>> * Switch DNS over >>> * Disable the AUR/community on gerolde >>> >>> Anything I'm missing? Suggestions as to a good date? >>> >> >> >> I propose keeping the readline rebuild in testing until the >> AUR/community move is done. So we could do the community readline >> rebuild (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15165) in the new >> community-testing repo then move everything to core/extra/community >> once it's done. > > I was thinking of a bit longer timeline for the SVN switchover. In my > head I had: move machines sometime this week, do the svn transition > next week. Is that too long?
That's not too long IMO. The first mention of that readline rebuild was a few months ago. So it doesn't matter much if it stays in testing for another week or two. > >> If we go this way, I suggest doing the move very soon (this week or >> next week) as we want to complete the readline rebuild so we could >> start the massive libjpeg rebuild. The timing of the AUR/community >> move couldn't be better. >
