[PD-dev] Going from CVS to Subversion

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I'd say the next steps are for someone to:

a) set up a test respository and try the conversion
b) propose a layout of trunks and branches (IIRC, there is some  
choice in the matter).

SourceForge's SVN does not currently have ACLs, and AFAIK, no one is  
volunteering to host SVN.  IEM has been mentioned, but I am not sure  
that IOhannes really wants more sysadmin work.

.hc

On Sep 19, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:

> Any updates on this?
> I promise to take (one of) the official role(s) of "SVN newbie help"
> to all that need it after (if?) the change takes place : ).
>
> Regarding the user accounts, Zope seems to have XML export for objects
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ 
> UsingZope.stx.
> That could perhaps be parsed for migrating to LDAP?  (if this is
> completely off base, sorry : ), I only skimmed quickly through.)
>
> Finally, regarding the CVS ACLs, these should be easily translatable
> to Subversion Per-directory Access Control (which does mean we'd have
> to run Subversion via Apache).  This is covered on pg. 132 of the SVN
> Book
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ 
> svn.serverconfig.httpd.html#svn.serverconfig.httpd.authz.perdir
>
> Luke
>
> On 8/21/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>> > Hallo,
>> > IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> >
>> >> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> 1) developer vote:
>> >>>
>> >>>   Should the SF repository switch from CVS to SVN on Sourceforge?
>> >>>   [ ] yes
>> >>>   [ ] no
>> >>
>> >> i am all for it, but: does sourceforge already implement some  
>> kind of
>> >> acl for svn? or can we live without acl's?
>> >
>> > Uh, we need to check this. But AFAIK we currently only use the  
>> ACL on
>> > Miller's branch.
>>
>> There are a few more ACLs than that:
>>
>> http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/CVSROOT/avail? 
>> view=markup
>>
>> This is probably important, so it needs to be sorted before the
>> transition.  If ACLs are in place, then I vote YES, otherwise MAYBE
>> (there would have to be some more politicing)...
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> >>> 2) sort out techical issues with branches, tags etc.
>> >>
>> >> for externals i would suggest to split branches on each external
>> >> separately, (e.g. /externals/zexy/trunk instead of /trunk/
>> >> externals/zexy
>> >> or /externals/trunk/zexy)
>> >
>> > Yes, I agree with this, but this can be dealt with after The Big
>> > Change, I suppose. For the externals we also should to take care  
>> not
>> > to break the extended Build-system. Some changes will be  
>> necessary to
>> > the Build of course, because of the usual trunk/tags/branches  
>> layout
>> > in SVN.
>> >
>> > I cannot really comment on how to best deal with the branches of  
>> Pd's
>> > sources.
>> >
>> >>> 3) find someone (incl. admins!) who volunteers to do the  
>> import. I
>> >>> would volunteer but I wouldn't want to do this completely alone.
>> >>
>> >> i would volunteer too, however i don't see any advantage in having
>> >> 2 (or
>> >> more) persons involved in the migration. (probably when they are
>> >> at the
>> >> same terminal, like with XP, then there might be a benefit)
>> >
>> > Let's do it mid-September then, when I'm in Graz. ;)
>> >
>> > I would actually prefer if someone else than me would do it, as I'm
>> > not that experienced especially with CVS internals, so I would  
>> gladly
>> > let you take over.
>> >
>> > Ciao
>> > --
>> >  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_  
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