[Dev] Policy for CVS moves

[Kapil Thangavelu]

i just helped move over plone.org to subversion. on a whole its been a  
fairly easy and beneficial.

there a few minor issues with setting up svn:eol-style props  
automatically on files, but for now we're recommending people  
individually setup auto-props in their svn config as  needed, if need  
be we'll introduce a server side cron job for this.

viewcvs from cvs is trivial to setup with subversion.

the CIA system is another nice piece of infrastructure i'd recommend it  
offers web navigation and irc integration (and can be used with cvs as  
well)	
http://cia.navi.cx/

a nice look at the change notification on the webpage.
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/svn/.message/1283474

i ended up using the refinecvs perl scripts todo the repo migration as  
it offered much better control over the migration then cvs2svn, your  
mileage may vary.

on a whole i'd say that i'd expect the tool support for svn to grow as  
its clearly established itself at the head of pack for opensource cvs  
alternatives with broad support.

additionally the python bindings for svn are nice, and are of great  
utility for doing any homegrown infrastructure tools as needed.

if osaf decides to go down this road, i'd be happy to help out in  
whatever capacity.

cheers,

-kapil

Kapil Thangavelu <hazmat at objectrealms.net>       Vision Implemented
objectrealms.net <http://www.objectrealms.net>

On May 21, 2004, at 1:38 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> I think it is short sighted to rule out a replacement to CVS. CVS is  
> bad, and if we just "put up with it" we'll be stuck forever with a bad  
> solution forever.
>
> I think it makes sense to spend a little time exploring options, learn  
> more about alternatives, before deciding it's just too hard to switch.  
> Subversion deserves some investigation, as do other alternatives. It  
> looks like ViewCVS works with subversion and has Bonsai-like query  
> features. I wouldn't be surprised if there is an LXR feature as well  
> (however, I use much better alternatives to LXR, so I'd be happy to  
> ditch it if we could ditch CVS's bugs and miss features).
>
> According to Google:
>
> Intro to subversion:
> http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/subversion_ch01.html
>
> How to setup ViewCVS to run on subversion:
> http://www.baus.net/archives/000069.html
> http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/suse-9.0/subversion-viewcvs-0.27.0 
> -95.i586.html
>
> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>> Denis Hennessy wrote:
>>
>>> Have you considered switching to subversion?  It's better than CVS in
>>
>>
>> Yes, but we have a fair amount of other infrastructure that only  
>> works with CVS. At least Bonsai, LXR, and ViewCVS rely on CVS. Of  
>> these, I think Bonsai would be the hardest to fix/replace.
>>
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