Re: Lowering the barrier to entry/adoption and (mass) svn-to-git migration
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 04:30:39PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > I agree, I think anything that reduces the complexity of the ecosystem
> > is great and the lowers the barrier for entry. As pretty anything uses
> > Git now, I think migrating more things from SVN to Git would be great.
>
> I will not forbid anyone to work on this but IMO the time to handle mass
> migration is long past. Anything that still has subversion listed
> in its VCS is effectively unmaintained.
>
> If I were to take over one of those packages I would just use "gbp
> import-dscs" to recreate some partial history based on snapshot.debian.org
> and I would not put any more effort than this.
> Even if I wanted to take care of all those packages as QA work to
> increase their chance of someone taking over, I would do the same
> and move the new repositories in the debian namespace.
FWIW I have mostly been looking at the Git repositories (rather than the
SVN ones), where I think it would actually be less effort to just import
the alioth archives than to import from snapshot.debian.org.
I haven't checked how complicated importing the SVN repositories is.
It'd be nice to keep the history, but if it's too much effort I agree
just importing the uploaded versions might be good enough.
Cheers,
Jelmer
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