Re: Switching the tracker to git
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:06 PM, micah <micah@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As it stands now, the security tracker is using subversion.
>
> Here are the facts as far as I can tell:
>
> . people doing work on the tracker are using svn to commit
> . h01ger is doing a regular git-svn import of the tracker repository
> . there is a regular cron job run by joeyh that does the automatic updates:
> joeyh r28744 data/CVE/list * automatic update
> . the web interface probably has some automated process to pull the
> latest updates over svn
>
> My guess is that the only reason that subversion is still used is
> inertia and that people would be happier with git. However, I'm curious
> to know if anyone thinks otherwise?
There has been discussion of switching to git for a while now. Last
security team meeting it was decided to stay with svn since no one
volunteered to lead conversion to get. So if someone volunteered for
that, it could happen.
Best wishes,
Mike
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