Re: SVN Repo updated (please look)

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:34 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> > I have converted most all of our scripts at this point, and verified
> > they work trivially (IE that changing something in www makes it update
> > the www dir)
> 
> Could the current patches to the scripts in contrib/ and 
> maintainer-scripts/, wwwdocs/bin if done and the replacement hooks for 
> handling commits with auto-checkout (wwwdocs) and mailing to lists (both 
> wwwdocs and gcc) and the proposed web page changes to be made during and 
> after conversion be posted (or such subset of them as has been done) so 
> they can be reviewed before the conversion?

Sure
I'll start posting them soon.


> 
> > The main waiting thing at htis point is for subversion 1.2 and for
> > sourceware to get new hardware.
> 
> At what stage will new mirroring arrangements be discussed with the 
> savannah administrators?  The way I understand the basic steps for a final 
> conversion <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-02/msg00130.html> has savannah 
> mirroring set up from the start of the new repository (so that almost all 
> anonymous users - once they see the README-MOVED-FROM-CVS-TO-SVN file 
> checked in to toplevel just before conversion or see an announcement on 
> gcc-announce - will from the beginning be using the mirror rather than 
> having a lot on gcc.gnu.org as you would if mirroring was only set up some 
> time after initial announcement).

I have no clue how the savannah mirroring works now, or who to contact.
Pointers would be appreciated.

If they mirror via rsync, they just need to change the directory they
mirror from.
If they mirror via some other method, we'll need to replace that method
(which should not be hard, there are a myriad of ways to mirror an svn
repo)