On 15.10.2011 19:49, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> --- On Fri, 10/14/11, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> ... >>> I want to make sure we're not duplicating effort here. >>> I've been working with Pedro to take the legacy OOo SVN >>> repository (pre Hg) and get it onto Apache-Extras. >>> I'm doing this via svnsync, a slow >>> process, but it will preserve the revision history.
sounds good; there are even still some non-integrated CWSes in there, but probably these are by now so outdated that they aren't of much interest. >> In more than week, at the current rate, but still it's >> worth it. I am not sure if support for MySpell and >> Xalan is still buried there somewhere but in theory >> there is some stuff there that may have been otherwise >> lost during the Hg migration. >> >>> I'm told that before SVN the project used CVS. Is it >>> worth backing that up as well? >> >> I have no idea where the CVS stuff may be available but >> apache-extras doesn't support CVS and it's probably not >> worth the try anyways. > > It is probably not useful for the project, at least directly. But I > was contacted by someone off list who said it might be good to have a > back up as a reference, for IP reasons. This kind of make sense. It > shows the provenance of the code, and it also establish an earlier > data (back to 2000, right?) for publication of the code. This is > useful as prior art. keep in mind that the CVS repo is pretty darn enormous, Heiner said something about 90G: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201106.mbox/%3c4e05d910.5070...@web.de%3E > What are our options if we wanted to back up the CVS, and preserve the > revision history? Apache-Extras doesn't do CVS. hmm... converting to something non-CVS is probably not an option, because that would lose information (given the nature of CVS any large repo is a huge mess...). perhaps mirror it with CVSup, make a tarball and upload that somewhere... probably nobody really wants to actually look at it, it's more of an "insurance" thing, right? regards, michael
