Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

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

sfeam <sf...@us...>:
> On Saturday, 14 October 2017 14:15:50 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > I'm making good progress on the git conversion procedure.  I expect to
> > have it wrapped up and ready to go tonight or tomorrow.  All I will
> > need to pull the trigger at that point is
> > 
> > (a) Daniel Sebald's authorship map.
> > 
> > (b) Push privileges on the git hosting site.
> 
> I was thinking that you would create and populate the git repository
> somewhere convenient to you, where you have control over everything
> up to and including blowing it away and starting over.  Then when it 
> seems to be successfully set up we would clone it onto SourceForge.

That's what I'm doing now.

> I can add you to the project "admin" or "developer" groups if you 
> have a SourceForge user ID.

I do. I'm 'esr' there.

>                           More fine-grained management of privileges
> on the site is something I have never found proper documentation for.
> I created a placeholder by hitting a button "Add new git" on the admin
> tab
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/git-main/ref/master/
> but I don't know exactly which subset of users associated with the
> project can push to it.  I am guessing it's everyone in the "developer"
> group. 

Yes, I believe that's correct.

> >From the self-reported date in the source file version.c
> gnuplot 1.1.0A		"Thu May 18 21:57:24 MST 1989"
> gnuplot 2.0.0 		"Wed Mar  7 22:18:59 EST 1990"
> gnuplot 3.5  		"Fri Aug 27 05:21:33 GMT 1993"
> 
> Yeah the timestamps probably don't mean much.  I reconstructed the
> source trees from multipart shar archives originally posed to usenet
> group comp.sources.misc and stored in that form in the gnuplot-historical 
> subdirectory on sf.net.   

Better than nothing.  I'll use those.

> I see there are also shar files there for "gnuplot-3.0", so I may try to
> unpack and put those in a tarball also.

OK.  It will be easy for me to incorporate that.
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