Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Proposed repository structure

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:34 -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > My suggestion is to import everything to SVN, and then keep the tarball > > of the entire CVS repo somewhere. This tarball could potentially also > > live in a corner of the SVN tree. > > Why not keep working r/o CVS? There could be some checkouts for some > time that use older versions, and one may want to update those checkouts > from latest branch, even if the branch itself is not updated anymore. I > know one could move to SVN but it's be a major headache, especially if > you had some private stuff in the same place. > > I don't see how read-only CVS would hurt anyone - provided it is knows > it's not active. Yeah, it should be kept for a few weeks as read-only thing so work in progress can be synced and people can verify there were no migration errors and stuff, I thought this discussion was more about a long-time perspective and there CVS should be shut down, details should be part of a migration concept, so let's find a good structure first before we open the next discussion - there's enough stuff to do :-) johannes