On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think we agree we want a complete Hg (or git) on Apache Extras, so we can 
> preserve what we can and also so we can cherry pick anything we find that we 
> need to draw over to the SVN repo, to repair problems on the SVN, etc.
>
> Greg Stein set up one project (ooo) but nothing has been moved to it:
> <http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo/>
>
> I'm unclear what the existence of all the Child Work Spaces does to this - I 
> assume we only get one Hg repo per Apache Extra Project and I don't 
> understand the relationship among the multiple repos used in OpenOffice.org. 
> (I've never used Git or Hg, so that is a blind spot for me.)
>
> [Nosing around OpenOffice.org I could find no source repositories, although 
> release tarballs are stated to be available.  I probably don't know where to 
> look.]
>
> I'm all in favor of doing the least possible to create the Apache extra.  
> "While we're at it ... " tasks tend to add too many variables in case there 
> are problems and don't have a history of great success.
>

At the very least, someone should download EVERYTHING in Hg and get a
database dump or whatever other portable archive format Hg allows,
preserving history, etc., make a tgz of that and get it seeded on
BitTorrent.

> Having a way to do further work at leisure is what I hope for.
>
> (I see that LibreOffice has gotten down to one, but that doesn't help here 
> and I'm not sure what that means in any case.)
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 09:42
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Repo] SVN ETA? (was Re: Request for comments: Community Wiki 
> Services web page.)
>
> Am 08/10/2011 06:21 PM, schrieb Pedro Giffuni:
>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:01:42 -0700, "Dennis E. Hamilton"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> "b) to keep the complete OOo HG repo in apache-extras to
>>> > keep the CWS developments but also to keep the repo
>>> > history for reference.
>>> >
>>>
>>> "This is correct and is done already."
>>>
>>> Where? I see that there is an ooo project there, but I see no code.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm ... I thought either Marcus or Rob had done it , but I guess I
>> was wrong, so we are where we started.
>>
>> Pedro.
>
> No, my knowlegde about SVN, HG and Co. is far away from being good
> enough to do such things. ;-)
>
> But someone has written that it's on apache-extras or at least should be
> moved there, isn't it?
>
> Marcus
>
>

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