On 06/03/2022 18.43, sebb wrote:
The GitHub repo has been forcibly changed to track
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/steve/trunk
instead of
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/steve/trunk/pysteve
This has invalidated all the forks, and broken all the PRs.
That is very discouraging for contributors.
Was it really necessary to do it that way, especially without applying
the PRs first?
It's an unfortunate side effect, agreed. It was not foreseen that GitHub
would blanket invalidate everything.
Now, having said that, the PRs could not be easily applied as it's a
mirror-only repo (for now), and nobody on the project expressed any
interest in working on that code-base, so I consider this sort of moot,
if in a sad way.
This process is about rectifying exactly that, the interactions on
GitHub and the pull/merge request process. Going forward, we'll have
better integration with the new code-base once we switch from r/o mirror
to r/w repo.
Sometimes you have to break some eggs.
Sebb
