Hello again Sorry, the number of the bug is #845297.
The rest of the message I think it's correct. Cheers El 30/05/18 a las 12:32, Laura Arjona Reina escribió: > Dear all > > TL;DR > ===== > * Today (in 1-2 hours) we'll migrate the Debian website repo from CVS to Git, > and from Alioth to Salsa > * CVS commits (to cvs.debian.org:/cvs/webwml) will be disabled > * The migration will probably take the whole day. Please be patient > * The resulting repo will be in https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml > (we'll send another mail when it's ready) > * The translation workflow will be mostly the same, but still needs work > * Stay tuned in #debian-www IRC and/or subscribe to Bug #846297 for details or > reporting issues.> * Thanks to everybody involved! > ===== > > Long version > ============ > > We have been working in migrating the website to Git, trying to keep the usual > workflows of this team (and translators), and although some things still need > work, I think we are ready for the final migration (on the other hand, CVS > will > be disabled on May 31st so we have not much possibility of delaying this). > > This is the current status of things and the plan: > > 0.- For working on this, we have been used (and we are still using): > > * bug report #846297 > * the wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/WebsiteGitTransition > * The migration test repos under https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/tests > > If you want more details about anything explained here, you probably will find > them in the above links. > > 1.- The proposal is to disable CVS commits (turn the webwml repo read-only) > TODAY 30 May 2018 around 12:00 UTC. > If you have pending work to commit to the website, please hurry up, or wait > for > the migration to be complete (we estimate between 12 and 24h later), and then > commit to the resulting git repo in Salsa. > > 2.- After the CVS repo is set read-only, we will run the script cvs2git > (thanks > Paul Wise for providing it!) to convert it to git. > > This step takes around 13h to complete. > > The script also produces a file cvs-revisions which lists, for each file and > CVS > revision, the corresponding commit hash. The script also includes in the > commit > messages the list of changed files and CVS revisions. > > The resultant git repo will be uploaded to: > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml > > 3.- Then we will run another script, switch_to_git_translations.pl (thanks > Steve > McIntyre for providing it!) to change, in every translated file, the > "translation-check" header to use a commit hash instead of the old CVS > revision > numbers. We will commit that changes to > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml > > This step takes some minutes to complete. > > Note that this is a massive change across the website, touching many files. We > may get build errors in the following days, not related to the migration > itself, > but to the fact that some pages are being built now after a long time, and we > may find problems in their wml/Perl code (e.g. using syntax that is deprecated > in Debian stretch). > > 4.- At that point, our git repo https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml > should be mostly usable, and people should be able to continue their work > committing to salsa. > > However, there are some things to take into account: > > * We'll need to change our cron scripts to use the git repo instead of the > old CVS > * The script stattrans.pl that is run daily to produce the language statistics > webpages (e.g. https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/es ) runs correctly > but it still needs work to produce a useful output > * The script copypage.pl should work well and we encourage to use it for new > translations > * We have a *NEW* implementation of smart_change.pl which is limited to > supporting git commit hashes. > * We still need to update the documentation (www.debian.org/devel/website) > > We'll send another mail (with more details about the steps post migration and > how can you help), when the git repo is ready. > > Thanks to everybody that contributed in the past and in the last weeks to > create, improve and adapt the scripts that support the Debian website > infrastructure. > > Kind regards, > -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
