On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 23:30, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

OK, so you don't care about contributors, that much is clear.

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