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Re: Reposurgeon status
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: esr at thyrsus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:30:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: Reposurgeon status
- References: <20190925203218.GA43287@thyrsus.com>
On 9/25/19 2:32 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Since the subject of repository conversions has come up, a situation report...
>
> I am in the very last stages of qualifying the Go port of reposurgeon.
> Most importantly to your project, the Go code passed all of the
> existing regression tests for reading Subversion stream dumps two days
> ago. That is a big deal, as the stream dump reader was by *far* the
> trickiest and most bug-prone part to translate.
[ ... ]
>
> I think I'm looking at somewhere between 7 and 14 days until I can start
> work on the GCC move again. Getting to this point has taken a year.
[ ... ]
Good to hear there's been major progress.
Probably the most important thing to know is the project will make a
decision on Dec 16 to choose the conversion tool. The evaluation is
based on the state of tool's conversion on that date. More details:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GitConversion
You should consider the dates in there as firm.
You might want to update the state of reposurgeon on that page.
Jeff