Stephen Lau wrote:
> Jim Walker wrote:
>> Richard Lowe wrote:
>>> Items #5 and #7 there could do with some explanation:
>>>
>>>     5. SFW gate uses Teamware and Mercurial in parallel
>>>     7. ON gate uses Teamware and Mercurial in parallel
>>>
>>> Could you be more specific on what you mean by "in parallel"?  It's
>>> infeasible to run both SCMs as nominal masters, side-by-side, and I
>>> assume that isn't what you mean, but I can't tell what it is you do
>>> mean.
>>
>> I updated the page to word things better. During the SFW and ON gate
>> migrations, there will be a period where we have a Teamware gate and
>> a Mercurial gate in operation near the same time (ie. somewhat in-sync).
>> At a high level, some may think of this as "running in parallel".
>>
> Ah I think maybe there was a miscommunication; there won't be both a 
> Teamware and Mercurial gate representing the same consolidation running 
> at the same time (at least not with both being 'commit-able').
> 
> So we'll 'flip the big switch' so to speak and /ws/sfwnv-gate will go 
> from being Teamware to being Mercurial.  And shortly thereafter it will 
> move from /ws/sfwnv-gate to ssh://hg.opensolaris.org/sfw/sfwnv-gate or 
> something to that effect.  I'll leave that one up to mike_s ;-)

Thanks. So, the old Teamware gates will only be used as backups, and we
won't attempt to keep them in-sync with the new Mercurial gates. I
updated the webpage.

Cheers,
Jim


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