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Re: That light at the end of the tunnel?
On 07/23/2018 10:29 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Jul 23, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hell, I'd live with doing a "reasonable effort" for the vast majority of
>> our branches. Other than the trunk, active release branches and a few
>> active development branches I don't think we really care about 'em.
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>> jeff
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> There are two approaches to conversion: (1) convert what's active and preserve the old system indefinitely for reference access; (2) convert everything 100% so the old system can be retired.
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> It seems that Eric has been trying for #2, which is fine if doable. But #1 is also a reasonable option and if the nature of the beast makes #2 acceptable, going for #1 is a plan I would definitely support.
Yea. I suspect we'll keep the SVN repo around read-only essentially
forever so the links in bugzilla continue to work. There's probably
other uses of the SVN version #s that we'd like to preserve.
jeff