Re: [RFC] source repository at Apache

>> (1) This means breaking all current revision numbers.
>
> That's true. But the mapping should be a simple offset, since ASF Infra
> will be locking down the repository from outside commits while the load
> happens. Over time, if we care, we can update old revision logs to point to
> the new revision numbers.

Including outside references in Forums and everywhere.

> svn:externals are just awful. Terrible design, flawed implementation.

I do not have an opinion about the implementation, I just find it useful
and efficient for what I do with it, and I'm clearly more on the small
granularity side.

>> (3) very big repositories add a large burden to system administration,
>
> In short, we don't care, because we aren't the system administrators.

I do hope that subversion devs do care about system administrators when
they design something.

> If the ASF Infrastructure team says, "We prefer X and are willing to do
> all the work necessary to support X", who are we -- who aren't bearing
> the burden of administration -- to make a fuss?

I thought that the preference was rather marginal on their side, and it
was really a project choice, and I do see that move as a big and
unnecessary disruption. But evidently I'm alone of that opinion.

>> I would prefer that. No disruption, just a switch/relocate.
>
> You wouldn't be able to just switch/relocate anyway, because we're prefixing
> our Subversion history with the converted CVS history.

Hmmm... you do not have to. If you do so that would indeed mess everything
in any case, but that's a choice.

-- 
Fabien.
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