Subversion repository closing. Conversion to Git imminent.
The Boost Steering Committee has given the final approval for the conversion from Subversion to Git, including the modularization of Boost library repositories. The Subversion repository will be closed for all changes to all branches, including the sandbox, Sunday, November 23 2013, 00:00 hours UTC. That's 8 PM Saturday, US East Coast time, and 5 PM US West Coast time. Please make no svn commits after that time. We will be adding a pre-commit hook that prevents commits, but please do not wait for that becomes active. After svn is closed, the conversion will be run one last time, and then turned off. Then there is a week set aside for final validity checks, testing, and general scurrying around. When that is done, the boostorg repo on GitHub will open for business. If everything goes smoothly, it may take less than a week but if there are glitches it may take longer. --Beman
On 11/22/2013 11:52 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
I believe that US East Coast time is 5 hours earlier than UTC, which would make 7 PM and 4 PM Saturday the east coast and west coast times.
Can the boostorg repo on GitHub be pulled from at any time during that week or is the idea to wait until everything has been verified first.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Edward Diener
The boostorg repos, both super-project and individual libraries, can be cloned and that might be useful for some limited testing. For example, creating a private branch "experiments" and making some trial changes and commits. But there is still a risk that any changes pushed up to the GitHub boostpro public repo will get overwritten. This would happen if we decide to rerun the conversion one last time to fix some showstopper that surfaces during testing. So other than throw-away experiments, best bet is to relax, and don't depend on the GitHub public repos until we post a message saying we are totally live. Useful questions, Thanks! --Beman
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