Plans for SVN infrastructure shutdown

[Luigi Toscano]

Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Oliver Henshaw
> <oliver.henshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4 January 2013 10:31, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>>> The plan seems OK, except for the very last step, "final shutdown".
>>>
>>> Please keep svn.kde.org around, readonly.
>>> [...] so if we could just keep a readonly svn
>>> around (surely this shouldn't require much maintainance), it would be useful
>>> for archeology purposes.
>>>
>>
>> It would also be very useful to keep websvn.kde.org links active - so
>> that commit notifications in old bugzilla reports remain useful.
> 
> WebSVN will be shutdown, and the subdomain removed from DNS.
> This also happened for cvsweb.kde.org back when KDE migrated from cvs to svn.

But it's not the same situation.
For what I remember, even if I was not an active contributor at that time, the
new svn repository basically matched the content of the old one; moreover, the
structure was a bit different at that time. This is not the case with git,
where for example we would lose the content of unmaintaned (which is somehow
hidden). What if someone would like to continue a project from there?

Also, even if non migrated projects in extragear and playground will be kept,
the lost of history does not sound good (same reasons as before, also because
it would make it impossible to solve problems related, for example, with
licensing or relicensing, should they arise).

> It should not be a problem to extract the revision from either the url
> or Bugzilla comment and use that to access the svn repository.
> The svn repository will be kept online in a read-only state for the
> most part, accessible via svn://.

But the final plan is to completely shut down it. If it can be changed to a
single, read only svn:// instance it would be better, imho.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi