Have no fear, we can extract all history from the svn repo. I don't know what approach you used, such that your IP was auto-banned, but that can be solved. We've done this before.
So: please don't worry about that, within this discussion. On Jan 8, 2016 1:11 PM, "Thorsten Schöning" <tschoen...@am-soft.de> wrote: > Guten Tag William A Rowe Jr, > am Freitag, 8. Januar 2016 um 19:18 schrieben Sie: > > > I'm trying to understand whether we are looking at a cultural refusal to > > ever put a post in the stand and say "this is a release, there will be > other > > releases, but this is our release as of now"? Or is this simply a matter > > of preferring git to svn? > > Holy shit no, this is by no means the start of a SCM flamewar, I like > and still prefer SVN very much, we use it at our company extensively. > My problem is really only about the release and incubation part and in > the end, if I'm going to keep my commit permissions to the "current" > codebase and history or not. I simply won't have the time to go > through the release process myself, I thought I have it when the > incubation process started, but it didn't work the last 2 years, so I > guess it won't work the next 2... And with that in mind, I'm just > checking the possibilities to keep any somewhat writable permissions > to the codebase for me. > > GitHub is only one possible anchor, which is simply better suited for > my needs than the Attic, because I could fork with keeping the > history. And if the project doesn't succeed the incubation process > now, it surely won't ever leave the Attic again. > > > [...]but if Apache log4cxx does not have > > those three people, and is not creating any releases, it simply is not > > a project. > > And that's fine, but that doesn't necessary mean that you need to "lock > away" the history. But I may completely wrong and it wouldn't be > allowed to even fork a dead Apache log4cxx on GitHub to keep working > on it with the history, even privately? > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Thorsten Schöning > > -- > Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de > AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ > > Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 > Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 > Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 > > AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln > AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
