On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 5:24 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 17:57, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > 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. > > I don't believe that this could not have been forseen. > The changes had to be force-pushed, which is a normally disallowed > precisely because of the problems it causes. >
svn is the primary authority. The repository on github is an improper reflection of that (it was rooted at trunk/pysteve/ rather than trunk/ ) ... it was broken to begin with. Sure, anybody using the github version has been inconvienced. All 3 of them.
