On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2011, at 19:02 , Chris Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> It looks to me as though the commits aren't flowing into the github
>>> mirror, but if we get that turned back on, github at least offers tar
>>> ball downloads.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/
>>
>> The reasoning here is that this is an SVN mirror and SVN is currently not 
>> being written to. In the light that this is an experiment, we should 
>> probably wait to update the git mirror until we know we do not have to 
>> revert back to SVN.
>>
>> Robert Newson and I discussed this briefly on IRC and we'd like to suggest 
>> to make one more commit to SVN that explains the situation which then gets 
>> mirrored out so that user can see the new home. Any other suggestions are 
>> more than welcome, too :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jan
>> --
>
> I wouldn't mind hearing from Paul, but I'm not sure that nicety is worth the 
> annoyance of having the r/o svn mirror repository diverge from the writeable 
> one.  We spent quite a few cycles ensuring that the commit hashes are the 
> same.  I guess we could always force-push later, but that's a rather nasty 
> thing to do in its own right.  Regards,
>
> Adam

I agree with Adam. Though we should update the website to point at Git
now that I think about it.

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