[Kde-scm-interest] How to handle conversion errors

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:56:39PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 27.02.10 13:09:13, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > 2010/2/27 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> > > Without an example, we can't tell. And you can simply delete useless things at
> > > the end of the import.
> > 
> > Just thought I'd add that if you do something like this, to be sure to
> > documented via a script file or something uploaded to kde-ruleset so
> > that we can have "The Switch" done in one weekend.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow you 100%, but the rules I'm writing right now are
> in my local clone of kde-ruleset and once I'm a member of the
> kde-developers group I'll certainly push that.

> However deletion of useless stuff will probably be manually at the
> end.
>
ian meant that you should automate that.

> Additionally this is mostly meant for converting kdevelop "soon",
> without waiting for KDE to switch (plan is to do it right after the
> 4.0 release).
> 
if you intend to use forward-merging (instead of cherry-picking to
stable), right *before* the release would be the only sane option.