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Ok, so enough folk were bugging me about SCM migrations, that I just |
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decided to follow what other projects had done, and create a list for |
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discussing the migration. |
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Donnie had a list of everybody that's been interested in the subject, |
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and I've subscribed all of you. |
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Most of this mail is a braindump, feel free to pick bits up and start |
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talking. |
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1. |
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Other large projects that have either had or are conducting the |
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discussions about switching SCMs |
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- FreeBSD |
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- KDE |
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- Ruby on Rails |
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- GHC (Haskell) |
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Know of any more? |
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2. |
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Tool to help Gentoo users move: |
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- easygit |
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- git-cvsserver (with RW patches) |
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3. |
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Migration tools: |
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- cvs2svn looks best as it's easy to customize into doing what we want |
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it to (Python). |
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4. |
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Doing more test migrations, and having a test-plan for comparing them |
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directly, as well as against other SCMs. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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