David,
that's great news.
I'd suggest to post this message to the user list as well since many of
the OFBiz users are running the svn trunk.
Jacopo
David E. Jones wrote:
We've been mostly ready for the SVN server move for a while now, with
license issues out of the way and such. We don't need all CLAs on file
before moving to the new SVN server, we just need that before we can
graduate from the incubator. That is getting pretty close to done, as
are many other things, so we are actually pretty close to graduation.
For the SVN move we'll use something like the following process. Because
of this we'll want to do it during a slower time, so I'm planning on
working on this on Saturday. Things are usually pretty slow starting
around mid-day Friday, but Saturday is probably better. Here are the steps:
1. shut off all commit access to the old SVN server
(http://svn.ofbiz.org/svn/ofbiz/trunk)
2. do a fresh checkout from the old server and import the relevant parts
of the repository to the new server (which will be at:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/trunk)
3. remove the parts added to the new SVN server from the old SVN server
(only specialized and such will remain); this will happen a few days
after the original repository is removed to avoid problems with people
accidentally doing an "svn up" against the old server; we'll warn
against this but I GUARANTEE we'll get complaints because people will do
this and watch their local checkout (except for modified/added files)
get cleaned out; this isn't a huge problem as you can always start with
a new checkout, but copying files over files that have changed may
result in cutting out changes in the repository; I'll try to warn about
this and perhaps I'm being pessimistic, but I'm sure people will do it
and cause themselves problems, and possibly cause problems with patches
submitted for up to a few weeks after this switch
4. restore commit access as needed for the old server; commit access can
be used immediately on the new server
Please note that after this move you'll need to start checking out from
the new server. Because not all of the old SVN repository will be moved
to the new server changing the location will have to be done on just the
moved resources. It can be done without re-checking out using the "svn
switch" command, something like the following (for example only) from
the ofbiz home directory:
$ svn switch http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/ framework/
If anyone has any thoughts or commentary on this, let me know.
-David
