On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:10 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
I'm proposing that we do this:
I think you guys should do what works best for you; as a "partial committer" who hasn't committed in over five years, I'm not really voting. But from what I can see of how the subversion.tigris.org/www space has been used in the past, and what I seem to see about plans for the future, it seems more likely to me that something along these lines would work:
1. Have the present subversion.tigris.org CVS repo converted into an *empty* SVN repo, and turn off the instance-set copy-from-elsewhere voodoo 2. Import the present svn.collab.net/www files (leaving, at this point, the site appearance unchanged) 3. Edit those files as desired, to add pointers and/or redirects to subversion.apache.org and so forth 4. Check in all the current release files, all into the actual SVN repository; fix up the "Documents and files" area so it consistently points to these files (instead of actually holding some of the files) [this step preserves all net.memory of how to get these older releases] 5. Likewise check in the 1.6.7 release (is that the right number? I mean the one incubator-required "made from Apache but not released from Apache" release)
I think Apache rules, once out of the incubator, require releases to be downloadable from apache.org, and likewise set some rules for mirrors that I haven't actually reviewed yet, but all in all it doesn't sound to me as if there's any realistic option for keeping Tigris as a mirror of the Apache-built-and-released releases, is there? Maybe as an unofficial, non-conforming pseudo-mirror? [Donning my CollabNet hat for just a moment: allowing the release download site to drift to Apache.Org is OK, our primary concern is keeping our "CollabNet Certified Subversion" downloads on Open.Collab.Net, and no one has suggested any problem about that.]
The TortoiseSVN.Tigris.Org project did a lot of similar stuff, and has had some time to work out kinks; it might make a good model.
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