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On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 22:45 Sat 01 Nov , Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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>> nice to see this thing moving, so thanks to all people involved. Apart |
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>> from the transition to Git, we also need to update all our crucial |
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>> utilities. Is there an agenda or roadmap for this transition, where |
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>> all these informations are gathered? And how else can one help? |
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> I'm working on a basic plan, and I've been talking to Robin (and whoever |
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> else happens to be on #gentoo-dev at the time) about it. |
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> There's 4 main pieces that I can think of offhand: |
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> 1. Getting a reasonable backend setup that is performant for initial |
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> checkout, updates, and checkins; |
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> 2. Figuring out a workflow that makes the most sense, even if it's the |
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> same one we already have; |
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> 3. Updating utilities, mainly repoman on the dev side, and rsync scripts |
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> on the backend; and |
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I will probably volunteer myself for #3 repoman.... |
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-Alec |
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> 4. A plan for the actual migration. |
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> Here's progress so far: |
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> 1. Working on it |
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> 2. Draft at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/master_plan.txt>. Thoughts? |
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> 3. Should be fairly straightforward. Patches welcome! |
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> 4. Could use some discussion. For example, do we provide |
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> backwards-compat CVS for a while, or do we just provide a git testing |
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> server for a while and switch things over all at once? |
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> -- |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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> Donnie Berkholz |
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> Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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> Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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