Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi Denis Thanks. CVS from PSFs works again. If we now have an anonymous CVS server for Orbit, can we please restore the anonymous CVS access for the other repositories too so that Helios, Indigo, Juno facilities work again for ordinary users? Regards Ed Willink On 14/01/2013

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Denis Roy
What other repositories? The only CVS repo I know of is Orbit. Denis On 01/15/2013 03:36 AM, Ed Willink wrote: Hi Denis Thanks. CVS from PSFs works again. If we now have an anonymous CVS server for Orbit, can we please restore the anonymous CVS access for the other repositories too so

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi /cvsroot/modeling etc etc Regards Ed Willink On 15/01/2013 14:58, Denis Roy wrote: What other repositories? The only CVS repo I know of is Orbit. Denis On 01/15/2013 03:36 AM, Ed Willink wrote: Hi Denis Thanks. CVS from PSFs works again. If we now have an anonymous

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi December 21st was the end of the world as far as committer CVS write access was concerned. However it was not the end of the world as far as user CVS read access was concerned. A variety of examples and documentation describe fetching code from CVS. It is not feasible to rewrite such

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Shawn Pearce
Maybe the product documentation shouldn't be pointing to committer resources? On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Ed Willink e...@willink.me.uk wrote: Hi But how could authors of Helios documentation change their documentation to use GIT?!! Regards Ed Willink On 15/01/2013

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi But the whole ethos of Eclipse is Open Source. We make our source available. We encouarge users to read and copy. Of course our documentation referred to CVS. I am really amazed that we allow one of our outstanding achievements to be destroyed for such a trivial reason. Regards

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi Picking on no one in particular from a Eclipse Corner CVS search. http://waynebeaton.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/updating-eclipse-corner-articles/ Eclipse Corner GIT gives very little. Regards Ed Willink On 15/01/2013 16:58, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote: The community hardship

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Project plan on Git repository

2013-01-15 Thread Wayne Beaton
I am investigating. Wayne On 01/15/2013 08:32 AM, Mikaël Barbero wrote: Hi Benjamin, Same result with planurl: 

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Wayne Beaton
That was 2006. I was young and foolish. The post has multiple flaws. For one, hooking up to that repository will bring in a whole host of crap that you don't want. This is something that I've always wanted to do better, but since nobody contributes to Eclipse

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Denis Roy
I hate breaking things -- I really do. The HTTP protocol is beautiful in that respect -- there are built-in provisions for redirecting old links to new ones. I could easily do something similar with pserver cvs, where the server would respond with a plaintext CVS is replaced with Git

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Ed Willink
Hi You may have been young, but not foolish; just diligent and helpful. Unfortunately you now show up as a prominent contributor our ten years of broken CVS legacy. Go to http://wiki.eclipse.org/CVS_FAQ. No mention of GIT anywhere. Click on the link to

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Wayne Beaton
On 01/15/2013 02:28 PM, Ed Willink wrote: Go to http://wiki.eclipse.org/CVS_FAQ. No mention of GIT anywhere. It is a wiki and you are a trusted member of our community... I see that Denis--also a trusted member of our community--has

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] CVS access to Orbit

2013-01-15 Thread Denis Roy
On 01/15/2013 02:28 PM, Ed Willink wrote: Hi You may have been young, but not foolish; just diligent and helpful. Unfortunately you now show up as a prominent contributor our ten years of broken CVS legacy. Go to http://wiki.eclipse.org/CVS_FAQ. No mention of GIT anywhere. I've added a

Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Project plan on Git repository

2013-01-15 Thread Mikaël Barbero
Thank you Wayne. It is now working very well with the right URL! I should have taken care about redirection. Mikael Le 15 janv. 2013 à 22:04, Wayne Beaton wa...@eclipse.org a écrit : This one was a noggin-scratcher. The document isn't where you think it is. When you migrated the website