Re: Volunteers for Subversion 1.5 conversion of cvs.php.net?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > Now that Subversion 1.5 has been out for a little while and it is at the > point where it might actually have some benefit to us, do we have some > volunteers who have some time to try converting over the repository and all > the post-commit and ACL rules from CVSROOT? You can count me in. I converted all of my websites and inside projects from CVS to SVN earlier this year. It seemed a daunting task, but it was trivial at best. I didn't use any of the automated tools, though, I did it all manually. > Talking to people here at OSCON, the consensus seems to be that moving to > Subversion at this point would worthwhile. The Git/Bzr/Merc folks have > better tools to deal with a central svn repository than cvs at this point, > and the svn workflow and Windows tools won't leave all our less technical > committers floundering. Not to mention the community of developers for SVN, add-ons, et cetera, and the ease of use via Apache. > I think the most convenient approach would be to do the conversion directly > on the cvs.php.net machine and run the two side-by-side with periodic > imports to svn while we test things and then a freeze and a switchover at > some point. I'd agree. It may not hurt to write a quick script to do real-life commits to both services from the command line, as well, in the beginning. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Better prices on dedicated servers: Intel 2.4GHz/60GB/512MB/2TB $49.99/mo. Intel 3.06GHz/80GB/1GB/2TB $59.99/mo. Dedicated servers, VPS, and hosting from $2.50/mo.