Re: [Plib-devel] SVN conversion

[Frederic B. <fre...@fr...>]

Selon Eduardo Alberto Hern=E1ndez Mu=F1oz :

> Hello list,
>
> I know that the svn from cvs conversion on sourceforge.net seems to be
> broken. I just tried myself to make a conversion from cvs to svn with
> tuxkart (I didn't made it active since I was just testing), right now
> the status of the conversion is 'waiting'.
>
> I got the following permissions to the tuxkart project:
>
>     *  You are listed as a developer (not administrator) for this proje=
ct.
>     * You may perform file release operations on this project.
>     * You may access and commit to this project's CVS repository
> (unless otherwise restricted by a cvs_acls installation).
>     * You may access and perform write operations to this project's
> Subversion repository (unless otherwise prevented by ACLs).
>     * You may modify the contents of the project web site for this
> project (unless otherwise restricted by file permissions and
> ownership) on the project shell server.
>
> So I'm supposing that any plib developer with these permissions can do
> the same for plib.
>
> After following the instructions listed in SF, I did got an error
> (cannot create group object) the first time I tried the SF's migrate
> interface, I tried activating svn (didn't worked, probably because the
> svn repository was empty), and selected 'hosted resource' in the
> 'Select Subversion Resource' at the subversion page shown to project
> developers even thought it was already selected.
>
> Now, I don't know if it was just problems with sourceforge or if
> reselecting one of the above options made the trick, but as you know,
> it is now in process.
>
> The whole point of this is that it seems that any plib developer can
> do the migration (not just the admin), but maybe not without trouble.
> In the worst case that no solution is found, a support request for
> SF.net should be made by one of the devs in order to clear any
> problems that cannot be solved with the migration.

As stated in the SF migration document, they require now that you provide=
 a SVN
dump made with cvs2svn. This utility ran flawlessly on the copy of the cv=
s
repositories of freeglut and plib last time I tried. And this is how I di=
d for
the fgsd project.

-Fred

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