Re: [boost] Subversion

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-01 09:17:02

Jeff Garland wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:03:20 +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote
>  
>> > OSL is willing to host the Boost Subversion repository. We already have
>> > a Subversion server for all of our internal projects and all of the
>> > computing power and bandwidth that we would need.
>> 
>> Good to hear!
> 
> As I think we've discussed before, we need to plan a significant time for
> this
> conversion.  I'd say 30 days as a minimum conversion period to allow
> everyone
> time to get/learn the new tools etc.  Yes, several of us did some testing
> in
> Jan when we discussed this last, but that was hardly everyone.  I'd say we
> need a 'conversion manager' to work out a detailed schedule and manage the
> process of setting up a beta repository for experimentation, etc.

I believe you're overly cautions. Take as example the biggest project ever
switched to Subversion -- KDE. There were no real problems after the
switch. As user interface of Subversion is almost the same as in CVS.

GUI clients is the only issue I see.

- Volodya