On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 24.03.2014 15:36, Herbert Duerr wrote:
>>
>> On 24.03.2014 15:13, sebb wrote:
>>>
>>> On 24 March 2014 13:51, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 23.03.2014 09:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> sebb wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is still an SVN tree  under Incubator:
>>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/
>>>>>> I assume this was all transferred to the main ASF SVN area at
>>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/
>>>>>> If  so, please can someone tidy up the Incubator tree?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It was indeed all transferred, and the old copy made read-only by
>>>>> Infra.
>>>>> It wasn't deleted since we still had releases and documentation around
>>>>> that referred to the Incubator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are still many e.g. Wiki pages that reference the incubator
>>>> locations.
>>>> I updated some of them but there are still plenty left, e.g. about the
>>>> branch aw080, netbeans, OOXML, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest to update them to their new location at
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice
>>>> For links that should continue to point into the incubator directory,
>>>> e.g.
>>>> because the branch was integrated and removed at the new location SVN
>>>> offers
>>>> the possibility to reference older branches using the
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/!svn/bc/1555555/incubator/ooo/trunk/
>>>> notation.
>>>
>>>
>>> Although that should work, I think it could be confusing.
>>>
>>> IMO it would be better to find the appropriate entry in the new SVN
>>> layout.
>>> If there is no such entry, is there really a need to keep the
>>> reference to the incubator-only SVN tree?
>>
>>
>> I mostly agree. For the pages that I already updated I was able to
>> change all references to their new repository location.
>>
>> But for sub-project specific pages the status is not always obvious
>> which alternative would be most suitable:
>> - update them to their new repository location
>> - keep the link into the incubator location
>> - are the pages are still relevant or could/should they be deleted.
>> AFAIK it is not easy to resurrect deleted Wiki pages, so doing that on
>> still somewhat interesting pages would be a net loss.
>>
>> The best solution would be to check the problematic pages and their
>> links. So if anyone has more insight into their status please update them:
>> A quick google search found pages about the "object inspector
>> extension", the "netbeans" extension, the "aw080" branch, OOXML, etc.
>
>
> A closer examination showed that the problematic links had counterparts in
> the post-graduation repository location and the text around these links
> didn't indicate a special dependency, so I'm confident that it was OK to
> update them, which I just did.
>
> So if the next 72 hours indicate consensus on removing the incubator/ooo
> part of the repository I suggest that we  should do so. The code history is
> already preserved in our git-import.
>

The only issue would be if anyone is doing LTS on 3.40 or 3.4.1,
right?  Didn't those versions go back to SVN to pick up the binary
dependencies?

-Rob

> Herbert
>
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