Follow-up Comment #2, sr #106612 (project administration): Hi,
> GNU Emacs is getting close to switching from CVS to bzr The thread you mentioned starts with some kind of bug report (about a CVS->bzr mirror??) and mentions git. Is this serious? > bzr on Savannah is still in beta? Yes, the bzr server-side didn't evolve afaik. A clean way to provide bzr support would involve using a restricted shell environment that run the bzr client (like cvs/svn/git/hg do), but so far the preferred way to access bzr is still sftp, and I don't know about maintained server-side hooks that would allow proper on-commit e-mail notifications. Afaics launchpad and alioth provide bzr through a non-restricted shell environment where people essentially install and configure repos by themselves, an environment where's not planning to offer since it's a different beast to maintain security-wise. So yes, currently it's in test, which means it's subject to change along with server-side improvements (though it hasn't much). > bzr 1.11 is now released; is Savannah on that? I believe you have a good understanding of bzr. Given that bzr works on top of sftp, what's the point in having bzr even installed at Savannah? :) More to the point, we run the Debian package from backports.org, which is currently frozen at 1.5-1 along with Lenny, so it would be inconvenient to upgrade now - should we need it. > We're still doing some test conversions, but things are > looking good so far. I'd like to know the status of the 'emacs' branch that the GNU Arch service has been "abused" into hosting. (http://arch.savannah.gnu.org/archives/emacs/bzr/) Is it used? Can it be removed? > I think soon we're going to schedule a "flag day" for the > switchover. Among other things, that will mean the CVS > repository goes into read-only mode, which is something > we'll need to coordinate with you. The best is to write an 'at' job to install the proper CVS commit hook on time. We can do that. > I just learned from sr #106531 that we don't have a > Loggerhead installation at Savannah. Can we? I actually installed it a while ago http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/ following a Gnash request but apparently it broke and nobody reported it. I wish there were a proper init script (I reported it at the loggerhead project). Anyway we can enable it, but possible close it if this becomes a resources hog. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106612> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
