Curtis Olson wrote:
> What I propose is that we migrate our self hosted CVS repository to
> code.google.com and in the process convert to SVN.
>
> 1. This gives us "professional" management of the servers, regular
> professional backups, and an automatec access control system for adding new
> developers.
I'm very much convinced that we're able to perform proper
administration of 'our' repository via a selected group of admins. Just
look at OSGeo where only a small group of volunteers is successfully
maintaining quite a couple of critical services over years !! without
depending on so-called "professional" management.
Not the lack of ressources is holding us back from maintaining the
repository ourselves, instead this is nothing but a mental 'issue' (TM).
The most obvious drawback of your current approach with setting things
up at Google is the simple fact that you're making an unbiased decision
about FlightGear's future SCM almost impossible. Only a fool would
expect a chance to change things after they're set up and running.
> 2. We need to move away from CVS somehow. SVN is a big improvement (but
> yes, I realize many of our developers think that going direct to some other
> system will be an even bigger improvement.
Thats quite belitteling. The fact is that a lot of developers are
already _using_ some other system right now !
> [...] I suspect that building a gateway
> between SVN and other systems should be easier and more transparent than a
> gateway between CVS and the other system given that SVN has more
> capabilities than CVS.
Well said .... especially given that SVN is much less prone to silent
transission errors compared to CVS ;-)
Cheers,
Martin.
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