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From: Justin <jlec@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:13:59
Message-Id: 4FC66316.3070800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver by "Aaron W. Swenson"
1 On 30.05.2012 18:58, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
2 > On 05/30/2012 12:53 PM, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
3 >> Hi!
4 >
5 >> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Rich Freeman wrote:
6 >>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
7 >>> wrote:
8 >>>> Yeah... this is why I was asking about access to infra to test
9 >>>> the conversion; so far, I haven't had any replies, though.
10 >>>
11 >>> A mock conversion would probably help with creating
12 >>> procedures/docs/etc as well. It is nice to say that we're "just
13 >>> going to use git" but I think everybody has a slightly different
14 >>> picture of how that is going to work.
15 >
16 >> I recommend having a smallish set of willing alpha/beta testers
17 >> for this. This usually helps with some of the near-edge cases.
18 >> You'll still find a thousand other bugs once things go live for
19 >> everybody. Still, it turns a million into a thousand. It also gives
20 >> you slightly more realistic load test. .... Regards, Tobias
21 >
22 >
23 > As one that's relatively new to Git, I'm a perfect candidate for
24 > testing. If we go this way, I volunteer.
25 >
26 > - Aaron
27 >
28
29 As I am a hater of CVS and my current checkout is repeatability spiting
30 weird errors, I would join as a tester here.
31
32 justin

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