[Gmod-help] Re: Fwd: CVS to SVN Conversion, 2009/09/15

[Josh Goodman]

Fine with me.

Josh

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk wrote:

> Hello Josh, and the Citrina community,
>
> On Sept 15, GMOD's CVS repository is moving to Subversion.  Rob Buels
> of Cornell is doing the heavy lifting.  See below for details.
>
> Josh (and anyone else), since Citrina is no longer supported, we were
> going to delete it from Subversion's default view after the move.  It
> would still be available in Subversion (it takes some hoop jumping)
> and in CVS.
>
> Please let Rob and I know if you have any questions
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave C.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk <gmodhelp at googlemail.com>
> Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM
> Subject: CVS to SVN Conversion, 2009/09/15
> To: GMOD Announce <gmod-announce at lists.sourceforge.net>, GMOD
> Developers <gmod-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Rob Buels of Cornell / SGN has offered to upgrade GMOD's source code
> repositories to use Subversion (SVN) instead of CVS.  After a two
> month discussion on the GMOD Developers list (see
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.gmod.devel/364), this
> update has been scheduled for September 15, 2009.
>
> If you are NOT a GMOD developer then this will, at most, change how
> you get pre-release copies of GMOD components.  In the future you will
> do SVN checkouts instead of CVS checkouts.  The doc on the web site
> will be updated to describe how to do this.
>
> If you ARE a GMOD developer and your project is in GMOD's CVS
> repository then please read the rest of this email carefully.
>
>
> A complete list of projects in GMOD CVS is at
> http://gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net/gmod/.  Over the next two weeks we
> will contact project developers to confirm what projects are still
> active.  All projects will be moved to SVN, but any projects that are
> no longer active will then be deleted.  A backup copy will exist in
> SVN, but users, by default, will no longer see the deleted projects.
> This should clean things up considerably.  All projects will remain in
> CVS as a read only archive.
>
> We have tentatively identified these projects as NO LONGER ACTIVE:
>   bop
>   citrina
>   gds
>   gmod
>   gmod-home
>   goet
>   graphbrowse
>   imdb
>   jalview
>   javaSean
>   labdoc
>   org.bdgp
>   pubfetch
>   pubtrack
>   sample_dbs
>
> There may be additional inactive projects as well.  Again, we will
> contact project developers before deleting any projects from SVN.
>
> Rob has created a preview version of the repository at
> http://bugs.sgn.cornell.edu/trac/gmod_test_svn/browser/.  Feel free to
> poke around.  This version does not have any projects removed from it.
>
> Rob will move the projects on September 15.  Before then everyone with
> uncommitted code changes should commit them to CVS.  After September
> 15, all CVS checkouts you have should be removed and new checkouts
> made with SVN.  We'll provide doc on how to do this.  We will send out
> exact details on the move a few days before it happens.
>
>
> Please let Rob and I know if you have any questions.  Again, we'll
> send out a reminder and additional info a few days before the
> conversion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Clements and Rob Buels
>
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