On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 04:30:39PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > I agree, I think anything that reduces the complexity of the ecosystem > > is great and the lowers the barrier for entry. As pretty anything uses > > Git now, I think migrating more things from SVN to Git would be great. > > I will not forbid anyone to work on this but IMO the time to handle mass > migration is long past. Anything that still has subversion listed > in its VCS is effectively unmaintained. > > If I were to take over one of those packages I would just use "gbp > import-dscs" to recreate some partial history based on snapshot.debian.org > and I would not put any more effort than this.
> Even if I wanted to take care of all those packages as QA work to > increase their chance of someone taking over, I would do the same > and move the new repositories in the debian namespace. FWIW I have mostly been looking at the Git repositories (rather than the SVN ones), where I think it would actually be less effort to just import the alioth archives than to import from snapshot.debian.org. I haven't checked how complicated importing the SVN repositories is. It'd be nice to keep the history, but if it's too much effort I agree just importing the uploaded versions might be good enough. Cheers, Jelmer
