Hi there, On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:17:27PM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2016年11月20日星期日 SGT 下午12:08:04，您写道： > > For what it's worth, there's also git-cvsimport(1) and > > git-cvsexportcommit(1) that can be used if someone really wants to > > contribute and doesn't want to touch cvs itself. > > Sure. I tried git-cvsimport to convert the cvs repo into a git repo (with -r > option enabled and -A disabled). The whole process took ~60 hours and the > final > git bare repo is ~260MiB large. > > I also found that the process is incremental after the initial import as long > as the history is not modified, which is a really good news for those who > wants > to work on the transition. >
Thanks for that, it's certainly useful data! > I think we can make a smooth transition through the following process: > > * open a git repository under the webwml alioth team, make an initial import. > * set up a crontab job somewhere (e.g., directly on alioth.d.o) and sync from > the cvs repository to git repository several times every day. Incremental > update is easy and can be finished within 10 minutes every time we sync them. > * gradually port all potential infrastructures (e.g., tools used to update > debian.org website) from cvs repository to git repository. This is the main issue - the actual tooling is fairly straightforward in terms of the get-from-git-and-compile system, but there's a large non-trivial amount of work for the translation systems. Laura Arjona Reina is currently looking at this, and the current thinking (AIUI) is that we need to: * Update the translation system to use Po4a::Wml * Deploy weblate for translations, or modify the process to use hashes rather than version numbers * Update large chunks of the site to use pofiles. Some files use it but not for all content, and there's a number of files that don't use it at all. Help with the above is welcome :) Neil
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