On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > > 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.
Not quite yet. I've updated a number of the log messages, but I plan on doing the big change on ehu and ivan tonight or tomorrow. I'll send mail here after it is complete. -Hyrum
