On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > (I tried to send an earlier version of this a few days ago. It's not > in your list archives; an MTA somewhere might have had a bad moment.) > > I have good news and better news. > > The good news is both reposurgeon bugs known to be blocking the GCC > repository conversion seem now to be fixed. > > The better news is that the person cutting my paychecks has approved > the GCC repo conversion as a supported activity, which means I can > concentrate on this until it's done. This couldn't happen sooner > because NTPsec had to get to 1.0 first.
Great! > I'm mirroring the repo now. It would helpful if I could get an > up-to-date copy of the repository's attribution map (usernames to full > names and email addresses). I've pushed to the thyrsus gcc-conversion repository the rest of my work from last year, including a few changes to the attribution map and a post-processing script. It has occurred to me that for the period since the creation of gcc.gnu.org we might just use @gcc.gnu.org addresses (which are likely to forward) rather than try to nail down everyone's current address. But using the address from the ChangeLog sounds better. > One thing my software can do now that it couldn't do six months ago > is mine Author fields from ChangeLog histories. So you'll get a > better-quality conversion than if I had been able to finish this then. Excellent. Jason
