Re: AW: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Bastian Märkisch wrote:

> Hello Ethan,
>
> In the past we had a few discussions on migrating away from CVS on 
> the list - with different opinions on Git, Hg, or Subversion. 
> Personally, I am not unhappy about the end of CVS support by SF, 
> but I hardly have experience with repository conversion myself.
>
> Eric S. Raymond and Allin Cottrel kindly offered help to convert 
> about two years ago. I am attaching a copy of one of their emails 
> below.

My offer of help still stands (and I do have fairly recent 
successful experience with CVS -> git at sourceforge), but if Mr 
Raymond's also still stands his expertise in this sort of thing 
greatly exceeds mine.

Allin Cottrell