On 1/6/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Well, lets be clear, I said it was possible, not trivial. There'd
still be a need for someone to write some code (a new option to
svndumpfilter or something) to make it happen. Not difficult, but I
don't know of any existing code to do it.
-garrett
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