On Nov 21, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> I don't recall ANY discussion of rewriting history. >> >> I'm somewhat peeved. > > Sorry 'bout that; I didn't interpret this as rewriting history. I'm happy to > change these edits back if we feel that they aren't appropriate. > > As far as whether or not the old svn:author properties should be updated to > reflect changed ASF usernames, I believe they should, for the following > reasons: > > * The contribulyzer wrongly interprets the old usernames, since they are no > longer in COMMITTERS. (Arguably, the contribulyzer could be fixed, but it'd > be a hack.) > > * We've rewritten the revision numbers as part of the migration to the ASF > repos. Updating past usernames to reflect new accounts logically follows. > > * Usernames are just pointers back to people. Since psamuelson doesn't exist > in the new repository, it's effectively a dangling pointer. These dangling > references should be fixed, as a step toward *maintaining* history, not > rewriting it. > > * As Lieven points out in another thread, since we don't have it recorded > anywhere, it won't be long before the link of psamuelson<->peters is lost to > newcomers to the project. (Even worse for non-obvious translations like > dionisos<->ehu.) > > * In the future, these dangling usernames could be assigned to somebody > *else* at the ASF, leading to even more confusion. > > Given the above, I think it reasonable to update the svn:author property on > the imported revisions to reflect the new ASF usernames for our committers. > > [ Sidebar: I'm just a little concerned that discussions such as this are > happening on d...@s.a.o, when we haven't yet switched off the old list. I > don't want to cross-post, since there may be many people subscribed to both, > but I don't know how many. We've now got two dev lists, and there is likely > to be confusion about which one decisions are made on. Let's turn off > d...@s.t.o RSN. ]
I haven't heard any comments on this one way or another. I'll point d...@s.t.o to this thread, but if there is no opposition by Nov. 25, I plan to update the remaining changed usersnames. -Hyrum
