Re: SVN to Git migration status

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 01.12.17 11:23, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you know we need to be prepared that when Alioth is moved to some new
> system SVN will not be available any more.  So I was busy to migrate
> close to all our packages from SVN to Git.


That was a tremendous effort. Many thanks, Andreas. I am confident
the gitlab environment when it eventually comes will attract many
new contributions. I am confident this was worth it.


>    Close to all means we have
> the follwing remainings:
>
>      r-cran-rlumshiny (Git repository created but I'd like to upload the
>                        latest version and some new dependencies are just
>                        missing)
>      mgltools
This is on me.
> My motivation for the latter is quite low due to the following reasons:
>
>    * RC-buggy (#855494 :-()
This should have been addressed with that one upload of mine that 
apparently had been lost before when the bug was addressed by upstream 
about two years ago.
>    * Inclear situation what is latest upstream
>       ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855494#40 )
Indeed.
>    * I never liked the split of one upstream source into lots of SVN
>      checkouts in different source packages.  Those who are working on
>      that set of packages need to do stupid repeated work for no good
>      reason and I really regret that I added myself as Uploader which
>      seems to be a good reason for other Uploaders to leave with this
>      kind of boring work they introduced in the first place
Well. It is not _that_ easy since in general our ftpmasters like to have 
this all separated.
>    * My motivation is generally lower to work on non-free packages

Well. Yes.

Best,

Steffen

> I would really love if somebody else would volunteer to take over these
> packages to migrate them from SVN to Git.  The fact that somebody is
> willing to spent the time to work on the packages would be a proof that
> there is some real interest and we should not drop them at all.  The
> migration process is described here
>
>     https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#subversion-to-git
>
> You need to patch the onvert_svn_2_git and replace
>
>     export SVN_URL=svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/
>
> by
>
>     export SVN_URL=svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/mgltools
>
> since the packages are in a subdirectory.
>
> What else do I intend to migrate?
>
> We have several unfinished packaging stuff and I intend to check each
> single one whether it might make sense to move it to Git.  Our tasks
> pages are displaying this information and I'd love to keep it but a
> general review makes probably sense.  So we should be left with a
> basically empty SVN after the cleanup.  Every hint about software which
> is worth moving to Git or simply can be removed from SVN would be
> welcome.
>
> BTW, since we now have removed nearly all existing packages I intend to
> remove the remaining dirs containing the README.status files to help
> keeping a better overview.  Every interested developer should know how
> to find the new VCS location even without those README.status files.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.