Re: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Am 17.09.2014 00:16, schrieb Don Armstrong:
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Stéphane Blondon wrote:
> >> I'm interested to migrate from CVS to whatever DVCS. Git is the most
> >> used today so it's probably the best choice: - more help for beginner
> >> - advanced user has used/uses/will use Git at some point
> >
> > I'm also interested in seeing -ww move away from CVS to git; I've done
> > some of the initial work here, but there's still a lot more to do. [And
> > I've got way too many other things on my plate right now to even think
> > about it.]
>
> Is your preliminary work available somewhere or isn't is any value yet
> for other contributors?
It isn't really of value to anyone; I was mainly making sure that git
was a viable option.
> I think what would be very useful is some plan/strategy to move
> forward. A strategy that would allow the whole system to move over to
> the git repo step by step. That way nobody needs to create the big
> scary monster patch that fixes everything at once. And people without
> the huge big picture can step in and fix the little pieces that are
> missing.
Right.
> I am not sure, but I think the repository is not seeing that much
> churn, so it would be feasible to carry new commits manually over
> between git and CVS for a limited stretch of time?
Probably. The real issue is that some of the larger architectural
changes which are possible in git are not possible in CVS... but I
suppose we could have a limited period of caryover once we decided to do
the transition.
I think what is missing at this moment in time is a decision that git is
what we are actually going to migrate to... and then we can probably
come up with a transition plan and a set of tasks that need to be
completed.
I don't even know how we'd go about making this decision.
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Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do
nothing"
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428
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