On May 1, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Jeff Garland wrote:
Doug Gregor wrote:
How much work is needed before the transfer could happen ?
Most of the work is done. When we're ready to switch (and *after* 1.34.0 is out the door), we'll ask for a 24-hour window to make sure we have enough time for the cvs2svn conversion and import (roughly 8 hours of crunching), and to deal with any issues that might crop up.
Doug, while I agree that most of the work for switching the repository itself is on track, I don't believe any of the "other work" has been done. Specifically, I mean the regression scripts and procedure writeups. It's my view that if we can't make the switch until these tasks are complete. And I suspect we really need some volunteers to make this happen...
Information about accessing the Subversion repository is here: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion It's on our Trac, which has its own wiki. Any developer with access to the Subversion repository can add/modify/delete pages on the Trac. I very strongly encourage us to migrate developer-centric information over to the Trac, because it's so much easier to modify than the web site. For volunteers to help us migrate CVS-centric documentation to SVN-centric documentation, they need only get a Subversion account (see the above page), then start editing the Trac wiki. As for the regression scripts... I don't expect that it will be a huge change, although it will take some time to ripple through. I run several sets of tests at OSL, so of course these will be the first to move over to the Subversion repository. - Doug