On 1/4/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can someone make a definitive statement on whether or not code
> > history is brought into our repo from elsewhere when a podling
> > brings code over?
>
> It is still being debated, so no. Roy's comments about import from private
> vs public repositories may be a reasonable approach. Personally, I'm a
> packrat. I'd keep everything possible. But I am not sure if we quite have
> a consensus, yet. Close.
I'm swayed. +1 on a policy of importing history whenever possible and
desired by the incoming proposal.
> I did talk with Garrett Rooney, and we can resolve the authorship namespace
> problem, so we can take that particular technical issue off the table. The
> imported author, which is held as a property, could be mangled to something
> like IMPORTED_${PROJECT}_${AUTHOR} during the import, preventing collisions
> with existing or future ASF Committers.
+1. Probably not worth the extra work of trying to map to the existing
committers or new committers.
Hen
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