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

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...>:
> Bastian Maerkisch sent an updated list, which I copy below

Saved.

> I do not know which email address Hans-Bernhard Broeker would prefer

I guess he'll tell us.

> vanzandt = James R. Van Zandt  <jr...@va...>
> vanzandt = James R. Van Zandt  <jr...@de...>

Can someone find out which he prefers?

> >  Ideally, we'd enhance this in two ways.  First, those of you with preferred
> >  email addresses should make sure this points at the one you want. Second,
> >  we'd add timezone offsets.
> 
> I don't think a timezone correction is appropriate.
> My experience in committing to SourceForge is that the
> timestamp is recorded in UMT rather than as my local time.
> So at least for my commits it would be incorrect to apply a shift
> based on the original location of the author.

You are right.  In the conversion process he timezone is *not* used to
apply a time shift.   Rather, it is used to set the time zone offset
that git will use for *display* of the time.  This is really just
a cosmetic feature; the times are stored internally as UTC and without
a per-committer timezone they're displayed as UTC too.

> > 2. If you want the authorship data to be right, somebody's going to have to
> >    write code to grovel through the ChangeLog(s) and generate
> >    date/author/filelist triples. (Then I'll have to write some custom Python
> >    to use those.) Though maybe this isn't worth it - the only
> >    ChangeLog I can see only seems to cover 1998-2000.
> 
> ChangeLog		2014-08-21 - 2017-10-09
> ChangeLog.5	2014-03-15 - 2014-08-21    (yes this one is redundant)
> ChangeLog.4	2011-11-22 - 2014-08-20
> ChangeLog.3	2009-10-18	- 2011-11-22
> ChangeLog.2	2006-10-01	- 2009-10-17
> ChangeLog.1	2004-04-17 - 2006-10-01
> ChangeLog.0	1998-04-09 - 2004-04-15 

That's odd.  The ChangeLog.[0-5] files don't show in my conversion.
I will investigate.

> > 3. There was some talk of gluing to the history old releases that only
> >    exist as tarballs.  That can be done, but I need those tarballs.
> 
> I will Email a copy privately.

OK.
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