Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-28 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Sean, 2016-11-28 23:23 GMT+01:00 Sean Whitton : > Hello Bálint, > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:33:34PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> It is not a subtree clone, but the result is practically the same > > It wouldn't permit making new commits, though. This is true, those who don't have good acc

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bálint, On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:33:34PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > It is not a subtree clone, but the result is practically the same It wouldn't permit making new commits, though. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-28 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2016-11-24 12:20 GMT+01:00 Jonas Smedegaard : > Quoting Holger Levsen (2016-11-24 10:43:40) >> As some people fear the size of the git repo, I've done a test: >> >> cloning took 5-6min (granted over a fast network connection) and requires >> 628mb of diskspace in the end. >> >> however, clonin

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website"): > Quoting Holger Levsen (2016-11-24 10:43:40) > > $ git clone --depth 1 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml/webwml2git.git > > Cloning into 'webwml2git'... > > fatal:

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:20:35PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Interesting data points. thanks. > Can you get these related data points too? I dont, sorry, etoobusy. > - relevant for those with > limited internet bandwidth (as is the case for some translators): > > * amount of data tra

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Holger Levsen (2016-11-24 10:43:40) > As some people fear the size of the git repo, I've done a test: > > cloning took 5-6min (granted over a fast network connection) and requires > 628mb of diskspace in the end. > > however, cloning using --depth 1 did not work :( > > $ git clone --dept

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Laura, thanks *a lot* for leading this migration! Much much appreciated! On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > I have setup this git repo: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml/webwml2git.git > for me and the people interested to work on the migration. wow,

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-23 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Dear all Thanks everybody for your input in this topic. Double thanks to all the people that researched and worked on this, from many years ago, until today. I have setup this git repo: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml/webwml2git.git for me and the people interested to work on the migratio

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:28:22PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Andreas Tille : > >I can ensure that ~260MiB is quite much for my Vietnamese friend Minh > >who just started with the translations. > > I wonder whether we should keep the complete history of the Debian web > in git. Who

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-23 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Andreas Tille : I can ensure that ~260MiB is quite much for my Vietnamese friend Minh who just started with the translations. I wonder whether we should keep the complete history of the Debian web in git. Who needs this? Why not cut it at some point, maybe with a year of overlap between

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-23 Thread Mathieu Parent
2016-11-23 19:48 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille : > Hi, Hello, > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:52:47PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: [...] > I can ensure that ~260MiB is quite much for my Vietnamese friend Minh > who just started with the translations. She is doing this on an old > netbook I have given her

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:52:47PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > > Sure. I tried git-cvsimport to convert the cvs repo into a git repo (with > > -r > > option enabled and -A disabled). The whole process took ~60 hours and the > > final > > git bare repo is ~260MiB large. > > > > I al

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-22 Thread Boyuan Yang
2016-11-22 18:16 GMT+08:00 Laura Arjona Reina : > I've opened a bug report: > > #845297: [www.debian.org] Website transition from CVS to Git > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845297 > > and created a wiki page: > > https://wiki.debian.org/WebsiteGitTransition Looks great! AFAIK

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-22 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hi again I've opened a bug report: #845297: [www.debian.org] Website transition from CVS to Git https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845297 and created a wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/WebsiteGitTransition Best regards -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjon

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-21 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hi El 21 de noviembre de 2016 17:11:12 CET, "W. Martin Borgert" escribió: >Quoting Neil McGovern : >> * Deploy weblate for translations, > >This would require http://bugs.debian.org/745661 to be fixed. >Which would also help others who want to use the tool. > Small clarification: I was explori

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-21 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Neil McGovern : * Deploy weblate for translations, This would require http://bugs.debian.org/745661 to be fixed. Which would also help others who want to use the tool. * Update large chunks of the site to use pofiles. Some files use it but not for all content, and there's a number of

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-21 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi there, On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:17:27PM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2016年11月20日星期日 SGT 下午12:08:04,您写道: > > For what it's worth, there's also git-cvsimport(1) and > > git-cvsexportcommit(1) that can be used if someone really wants to > > contribute and doesn't want to touch cvs itself. > >

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-21 Thread Boyuan Yang
在 2016年11月20日星期日 SGT 下午12:08:04,您写道: > For what it's worth, there's also git-cvsimport(1) and > git-cvsexportcommit(1) that can be used if someone really wants to > contribute and doesn't want to touch cvs itself. Sure. I tried git-cvsimport to convert the cvs repo into a git repo (with -r option

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-20 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> writes: > I know there is a saying that "If things ain't broken, don't fix it.". But > this > is nearly 2017 today, not 2007 or 1997. CVS is seriouly outdated and largely > replaced by SVN (or even Git). For what it's worth, there's also git-cvsimport(1) and git-

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-20 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 12:46:55PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > As a newcomer who wants to contribute to the Debian website, I was shocked > > when I heard that debian.org website is still using CVS to manage the > > sour

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Needless to say there are various tools that can help convert a CVS repo into > a SVN repo or Git repo and they handle this job properly. This idea comes up every few years but we haven't yet found someone with the time, skills and motivation