I guess it even better to setup first GUMP instead of *migrating* from CVS to subversion.
Does anybody know much about GUMP? Btw. Martin, are you using GUMP inside of Struts? Thanks, Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:35 PM > To: MyFaces Development > Subject: Re: A few more suggestions > > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bill Dudney wrote: > > > Ted, > > > > Would it be possible for us to stay in CVS for the next few months > > then do > > the conversion? I've not had to do it myself but I've read > that the cvs2svn > > script is supposed to do a good job of moving all the > history over. Once the > > IDE plugins catch up we could make the jump. > > > > Thoughts? > > I'm not Ted ;-) but I would say that shouldn't be a problem - > depending, > of course, on how many months a "few" turns out to be. ;-) But we can > cross that bridge when we come to it. > > The cvs2svn tool does a great job of preserving everything, > history and > all. Once you're ready to make the move, the usual practice > is to load > everything into a test repo, let people play around with it > for a couple > of days, and then give infrasructure the nod. It should be quick and > painless for all involved. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > > -bd- > > > > On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Ted Husted wrote: > > > >> Moving to Subversion was "strongly suggested" when we drafted the > >> incubator > >> proposal. However, the developers felt that the CVS IDE > tools were more > >> mature, and that they would prefer to wait before switching. > >> > >> To receive the CVS logs, subscribe to > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >> > >> -Ted. > >> > >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:21:00 -0800 (PST), Martin Cooper wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> �On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Sean Schofield wrote: > >>> > >>>> �I have a few more suggestions for the MyFaces development team: > >>>> > >>>> �#1) Consider moving from CVS to Subversion (SVN) when > its time to > >>>> �leave the incubator. �Apache has both types of repositories > >>>> �available. Struts just recently moved to SVN and people like it. > >>>> �I'm not totally familiar with advantages vs. > disadvantages but it > >>>> �seems to be a lot more flexible. �If this is something we'd > >>>> �consider than it would be best to do it at the same time as > >>>> �MyFaces leaves the incubator. > >>>> > >>> > >>> �I would strongly encourage this. Apart from the fact that all of > >>> �the ASF repositories will eventually be required to move from CVS > >>> �to SVN, SVN really does have some excellent advantages. The two > >>> �biggest, in my experience, are atomic commits (meaning that all > >>> �changes within one commit are handled as a single > transaction) and > >>> �ease of refactoring. From an infrastructure perspective, using > >>> �moving to SVN means that individual Unix accounts for every > >>> �committer are no longer required. > >>> > >>>> �#2) Regardless of whether we use SVN or CVS, it would be nice to > >>>> �email the developer's list when users check in. �This is a > >>>> �standard practice with other Apache projects and helps > developers > >>>> �keep track of changes to the codebase. > >>>> > >>> > >>> �Yep. Not sure why this isn't happening already. > >>> > >>> �-- > >>> �Martin Cooper > >>> > >>> > >>>> �sean > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
