For the conversion process, I have a remark. In distributed version control systems, the use of a username as the committer identifier really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. This is because there's no such thing as a committer: anyone can commit against the tree and ask the maintainer for inclusion of their changesets in the official repositories. This means someone who committed may not have a username, which makes it hard to track down who he/she is. In SVN-based projects, for example, each committer has some connection to the project, there is some process by which someone became a committer.
For this reason, DVCSs often use a different kind of usernames for the changesets. In Mercurial, this is usually an email-From-like string: "Dirkjan Ochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" (without the quotes). This includes an email address so that it is immediately clear how to contact the person responsible for this commit. I'd like to request that an authormap file is generated for each conversion. This should be possible from data that mozdev already has: committer names/email addresses. That should make it possible to give each changeset a more appropriate username value, and enable the full distributed way of thinking. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
