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 > >
