On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > > 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, Has this been completed? I want to get a fresh, good dump of the Subversion code and was waiting for all the usernames to be updated. Thanks, Blair
