Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
On 18/10/17 02:40, Helen Borrie wrote: >>From my dabblings with your test project yesterday, I think my > problems are with the Git desktop, mostly. I don't like the UI much > at all, although being able to connect from it to the source project > is a nice feature, but not a life saver. When I

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-17 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Helen Borrie wrote: Currently, with the CVS and SVN clients I use - necessarily on Windows, since our doc app is Windows-based - I can commit, check out, etc. from a right click on the /manual/ subdir, or any subdir beneath it. Given that I'm committing to multiple projects, this is a blessing

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-17 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 16-10-2017 22:58, Helen Borrie wrote: I guess I have to say (to quote my ex-Navy husband) "that's life in a blue suit." My preference would have been to convert to SVN and leave the repository on Sourceforge - don't fix what aint broke. But Github seems to dominate our (project) lives these

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-16 Thread Helen Borrie
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:59:11 AM, Paul V. wrote: > Hi all, > Three people - one of them a committer - have expressed their preference > for moving to GitHub. > I have no problem with that, but I would also like to hear Helen's opinion, > as she is the heaviest user of the manual module.

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-11 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 11-10-2017 13:59, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: Hi all, Three people - one of them a committer - have expressed their preference for moving to GitHub. Two committers, although it has been a while (3 years AFAICT), I have committed to the manual module. I have no problem with that, but I would

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-11 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Mark Rotteveel wrote: >> I am willing to spend some time to test and perform the conversion of >> the manual module to Git (and GitHub), so the commit history is >> preserved. If the consensus is for subversion, I can do that as well. > > I'll be doing a test conversion of the ODBC repository

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-11 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 9-10-2017 09:13, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I think it would be preferable if the documentation project would move to GitHub (https://github.com/FirebirdSQL), where the main project resides. If complexity of git is a problem: GitHub also allows subversion access to a git repository:

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
I agree with the git option too. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-09 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 8-10-2017 21:03, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: To all committers: SourceForge have announced that they plan to terminate CVS read-write support on November 30. The CVS manual module will still be available after that for checkouts and updates, but not for commits. That means that we have around 7

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-09 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
On 09.10.2017 8:27, Jiří Činčura wrote: Convert to Git and put it under FirebirdSQL organization on GitHub for extra visibility. It might even help with contributions. +1 Regards, Alexey -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-08 Thread Jiří Činčura
Convert to Git and put it under FirebirdSQL organization on GitHub for extra visibility. It might even help with contributions. -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ -- Check out the vibrant tech

[Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-08 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
To all committers: SourceForge have announced that they plan to terminate CVS read-write support on November 30. The CVS manual module will still be available after that for checkouts and updates, but not for commits. That means that we have around 7 weeks to implement another solution.