[gst-devel] Core/Base/Bad/Python released. Next step - moving to GIT.

[Jan Schmidt]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 04:23 +0100, Edward Hervey wrote:
> Thanks Jan for the releases !
> 
>   So for the missing info:
>   * I'll be grabbing an fdo admin to de-activate cvs (leaving only
> anoncvs). No shortage of them here at LCA.
>   * Since this switch information has already been circulating for a few
> weeks now, I propose to do that at 23:59 CET tonight (20th Jan). For
> people in Europe it won't matter that way, but I'm currently in
> Australia so leaves me a full day to make sure the migration goes
> flawlessly before Europe wakes up again.

+1 on the timing.

J.

>   The rest is pretty straighforward, and the conversion/upload/activate
> should take (with checks) around 4 hours.
> 
>   I don't think there's much more to say,
> 
>     See you the other side :)
> 
>       Edward
> 
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 00:20 +0000, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> > Now that the set of Core/Base/Python/Bad release are out of the way, the
> > plan is to move to GIT over the next week.
> > 
> > Edward will be managing the timing and activity of the actual migration
> > to fit in with his week at LCA, but the general plan is:
> > 
> > * Core/Base/Bad/Python stay frozen until further notice
> > * Edward decides when he wants to cue up the migration and lets us know
> > * At a designated time *all other* modules will freeze in CVS and CVS
> > will be marked Read-only, so that there can be no commits while the
> > migration takes place.
> > * Everything moves to git in the standard locations on the
> > freedesktop.org servers (which should be something like
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer,
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base etc)
> > * Everyone can start using git, and CVS is only useful as a read-only
> > history.
> > 
> > In case of unexpected disaster:
> > All repositories are tagged with GIT_MIGRATION for the commit at which
> > the conversions were done. If the worst comes to worst, we can then
> > easily get all commits since that conversion as a series of unified-diff
> > patches, make cvs read-write again, and commit them.
> > 
> > Edward - over to you!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jan.
> 
-- 
Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>