[M3devel] SVN migration, also promotion

[Tony Hosking]

Whatever system is used, it should be widely adoptable on many  
platforms, and have strong support from the broadest community.  To my  
mind, that means only cvs or svn at the present time.

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On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:10 PM, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:44:25PM +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it will be furthered by switching from CVS to SVN
>> or any other tool change.
> ...
> ...
>>
>> If there really is the wish within the community to switch from
>> CVS to SVN, then those interested should build a team, investigate
>> the impacts and propose a migration plan. Elego and me for one
>> would need new server setup, the actual repository migration (which
>> should preserve as much information as possible), setup of repository
>> replication to two machines, integration of SVN into the regression
>> test framework, setup of SVN clients, update / rewrite of all the
>> repository access information and CM guidelines, and a migration
>> strategy for all the existing HTTP links in search engines etc.
>>
>> If I should make an estimation for this project in a commercial
>> environment, I'd say it will take 3-6 months and cost a client
>> between 40,000 and 80,000 Euros (that's currently 60,000 to  
>> 120,000$).
>> I'd rather invest these efforts for other goals. If other CM3 users
>> think it is worthwhile to do, they should just do it; after all, this
>> is an open source project.
>
> If such a group does reorganise the Modula 3 sources into a new  
> revision
> control system, though, I'd strongly advise them to look into a
> distributed one.
>
> -- hendrik

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