Difference between revisions of "Conversion to SVN"

Revision as of 00:33, 2 March 2007

Date and Time

• Planned date: Mar 2
  • (was earlier, but the shell server being down forced a delay)
• Planned cutoff of CVS: Feb 28, midnight pacific time (-8)
  • No commits to CVS must happen after that time.

Things affected by CVS/SVN conversion (a todo list)

Done things

• Convert CVS to svn using dump/etc
  • Things removed before conversion: CVSROOT, snmplib, ucd-snmp-patches, tcpListenerTable.h (top level???)
  • SVN Conversion Issues
  • SVN plugins added:
    • mail to -cvs
    • case insensitivy check
  • Other interesting stats:
    • Time to convert the CVS repository to the dump file: ~20 minutes
      • (needed multiple runs)
    • Dump file size: 1.97Gb
    • Time to compress bz2: ~ 20 min
    • Compressed dump file: 200Mb
• mailing lists
  • sending commit messages to cvs list
• backups
  • Wes'
• Web pages
  • menu link
  • Net-SNMP SVN Usage Page -- needs to be added to and linked elsewhere
  • SVN Web notes

Not Done

• Release System Components
  • I'll look at (re-)writing these as part of preparing 5.2.4.pre3 - DTS
  • dist/extractnews
  • dist/makerelease
  • dist/RELEASE-INSTRUCTIONS
  • agent/mibgroup/versiontag
  • ChangeLog
    • I wouldn't be surprised if we completely rebuild this
  • dist/Makefile
  • dist/cvsup, dist/cvsshow, dist/patme (all non-critical?)
• backups
  • Robert's
• documentation
  • list...
• announce to various places
• Nightly tar-balls coming from SVN now
  • rstory must do this