With apologies to everyone who got spammed on the commits@ list, I'm now done updating these svn:author properties and references in log messages. Thanks for the patience.
-Hyrum On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > >> >> On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't recall ANY discussion of rewriting history. >>>>> >>>>> I'm somewhat peeved. >>>> >>>> Sorry 'bout that; I didn't interpret this as rewriting history. I'm happy >>>> to change these edits back if we feel that they aren't appropriate. >>>> >>>> As far as whether or not the old svn:author properties should be updated >>>> to reflect changed ASF usernames, I believe they should, for the following >>>> reasons: >>>> >>>> * The contribulyzer wrongly interprets the old usernames, since they are >>>> no longer in COMMITTERS. (Arguably, the contribulyzer could be fixed, but >>>> it'd be a hack.) >>>> >>>> * We've rewritten the revision numbers as part of the migration to the ASF >>>> repos. Updating past usernames to reflect new accounts logically follows. >>>> >>>> * Usernames are just pointers back to people. Since psamuelson doesn't >>>> exist in the new repository, it's effectively a dangling pointer. These >>>> dangling references should be fixed, as a step toward *maintaining* >>>> history, not rewriting it. >>>> >>>> * As Lieven points out in another thread, since we don't have it recorded >>>> anywhere, it won't be long before the link of psamuelson<->peters is lost >>>> to newcomers to the project. (Even worse for non-obvious translations >>>> like dionisos<->ehu.) >>>> >>>> * In the future, these dangling usernames could be assigned to somebody >>>> *else* at the ASF, leading to even more confusion. >>>> >>>> Given the above, I think it reasonable to update the svn:author property >>>> on the imported revisions to reflect the new ASF usernames for our >>>> committers. >>>> >>>> [ Sidebar: I'm just a little concerned that discussions such as this are >>>> happening on d...@s.a.o, when we haven't yet switched off the old list. I >>>> don't want to cross-post, since there may be many people subscribed to >>>> both, but I don't know how many. We've now got two dev lists, and there >>>> is likely to be confusion about which one decisions are made on. Let's >>>> turn off d...@s.t.o RSN. ] >>> >>> I haven't heard any comments on this one way or another. I'll point >>> d...@s.t.o to this thread, but if there is no opposition by Nov. 25, I plan >>> to update the remaining changed usersnames. >> >> Hyrum, >> >> Has this been completed? I want to get a fresh, good dump of the Subversion >> code and was waiting for all the usernames to be updated. > > Not quite yet. I've updated a number of the log messages, but I plan on > doing the big change on ehu and ivan tonight or tomorrow. I'll send mail > here after it is complete. > > -Hyrum
