I'd like to suggest that your contributions might be more valuable in
patch form, but given the quality of your review comments, I'll instead
advise a little shut-the-hell-up.
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 01:53 +0200, Dean Pickersgill wrote:
> The comment on the change is:
> Noted Velocity completely done. Updated Subversion plan/+'s/questions/-'s
>
> ... Obviously not because people are still adding to it ...
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>* Every sub-project of Jakarta gets a subdirectory in the Jakarta SVN
> repo.
>* They use a tags/trunk/branches structure within said subdirectory,
> though they could further componentise and then use the tags/trunk/branches
> structure if it fits them better.
> -
> + * The CVS repositories of "dead" projects are not targeted for migration
> (e.g. jakarta-site).
>
> == Positives ==
>
> - One major plus is that it simplifies the life of the infrastructure team.
> They no longer need UNIX accounts for each user, but can maintain users in
> htaccess files (behind SSL).
> + Subversion provides many advantages over CVS, smoothing out its "excessive
> character" while providing the same approximate level of functionality, and
> a much better designed platform on which to develop tools. Sampling of
> improvements over CVS:
> + * move files within the repository and maintain the history
> + * delete directories (which are treated no different than any other
> versioned resource)
> + * treat groups of files in one commit as a single transaction (change
> set-like)
> + * significantly faster branching and tagging
>
> - There are many developer pluses too. Subversion gives us the ability to
> move files within the repository and maintain the history, to treat groups
> of files in one commit as a single transaction and has faster speed on
> tagging.
> + Another major benefit is that administration of Subversion simplifies the
> life of the Infrastructure team. UNIX accounts need not be created for each
> user; user accounts are instead maintained in htaccess files, with
> authentication occuring over SSL.
>
> == Questions ==
>
> - * What do we do with legal issues? If a non-ASF allowed licensed file
> appears in the repository, can we obliterate it? Is it a problem if we
> can't?
>* Is the community's toolset fully supported?
> - * How do we educate the community?
> - * Do we need to migrate dead cvs modules? ie) jakarta-site?
>
> == Negatives ==
>
> - * Tagging is just a directory copy. Tags which are more than a simple
> directory tree get trickier. ie) tagging without tagging all the files, or
> tagging plus a set of files in a sibling directory. The trick of doing 'cvs
> status -v build.xml' to list known tags for a module is no longer available
> as well.
> - * Installation. An SVN client, especially with SSL support, seems
> trickier to install than CVS.
> + * The tagging and branching model varies from that of CVS, and is only a
> "cheap" directory copy. Tags which are more than a simple directory tree get
> trickier. ie) tagging without tagging all the files, or tagging plus a set
> of files in a sibling directory. The trick of doing 'cvs status -v
> build.xml' to list known tags for a module is no longer available as well.
> Instead, the "tags/" directory in the repository may be browsed using a 'svn
> ls' or a [http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ web browser].
> + * Obliteration of files which should have never made their way into the
> VC repository (e.g. files with a non-ASF allowed license) can currently only
> be accomplished through a dump/edit/load of the entire repository by the
> Infrastructure team (resulting in a repository-wide maintenance window).
>
> == Migration Plan ==
>
> @@ -39, +40 @@
>
>* POI - Nudged. Is OS X support good enough? amongst other
> questions.
>* Slide - Stefan LC* Taglibs - Tim O'Brien. Martin Cooper. Renudged.
> - * Tapestry - Nudged. Is Subclipse good enough?
> + * Tapestry - Nudged. Is [http://sublicpse.tigris.org/ Subclipse]
> good enough?
>* Turbine - Henning Schmiedehausen, Daniel Rall
>
> === Archivals ===
> @@ -49, +50 @@
>
>
> === DONE ===
>* BCEL - Henri Yandell
> - * BSF - Done.
> + * BSF - (done)
>* Commons - Martin Cooper + Tim O'Brien -
> [http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/SubversionConversion Conversion
> Instructions]
>* ECS - Robert Burell Donkin + Henri Yandell. jakarta-ecs
> and jakarta-ecs2.
> - * HiveMind - Done.
> + * HiveMind - (done)
>* Lucene- Erik Hatcher
> - * ORO - Daniel Savarese.
> + * ORO - Daniel Savarese
>* Regexp- Henri Yandell
>* Site2 - Tim O'Brien + Henri Yandell - ["Site2 Conversion
> Instructions"]
> -
