On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/4/1, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
For the rest of the week, I am going to be concentrating on one big thing: moving our repos to SVN.
Finally! Huge thanks for stepping into this! :-)
We *will* lose history during this transition. It's something I'm willing to live with, as this is not code history. We will still archive CVS for posterity.
:-/ I would prefer to keep history, but if there's no (easy enought) way to do this - I'm fine without history, especially when CVS archive is kept for some time (BTW, this is a good example where ChangeLog file with important changes comes handy, especially for important packages).
We all wish we could keep history, but it's going to be nearly unusable and going to make the conversion process take obscenely longer. I have talked it over with Dan and Jason, as far as the best way to do this conversion, and we all agree that losing the history is a better cost than the added effort for keeping it. The CVS archive will be kept as long as we need it (years?).
What I'm concerned about is the status of community. Scripts seem to be pretty old (don't understand -arch suffix yet). If our AUR heros can move this to SVN in pretty short time (few days?) - that would be awesome. I can help with aurtools/devtools modification/testing and changing guidelines for TUs.
One step at a time please. The community scripts are my next point of attack, so lets just stick with the SVn conversion for right now. I am already talking over the technical details with Paul and Simo, and switching to svn is easy. Path of least resistance. The next thing I tackle like this will be the community management scripts, so don't fear.