[Pgpool-hackers] Exodus from pgfoundry

[Guillaume Lelarge]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:50 +0200, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 11:14, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >>> 4) Prepare everything necessary for the new server
> >>
> >> Well, my only concern here would be to have yet another login credential.
> > 
> > No way:-)
> > 
> >>>    - Source repository (probably starting with CVS, then migrate to
> >>>      git.hub?)
> >>
> >> github would be perfect for 3.1. Do you have an account ? You can create
> >> the pgpool organization here, but all pgpool commiters need all to have
> >> a github account then.
> > 
> > My concern is, I would like to bring CVS histories to git. I know
> > PostgreSQL developers worked very hard and took long time to do that.
> > If it takes so long time, we need to continue to use CVS.
> 
> AFAIK, Guillaume Lelarge is working on this.
> 

IIRC, PostgreSQL developers worked hard on it for two reasons: they
modified the history in the CVS files (the ",v" files), which was a
really bad mistake at first, and they ran into a bug with cvs that broke
some tags. They worked with the developer who maintained the cvs to git
conversion tool and all that work helped to have a better tool. So, if
you didn't change manually the ",v" files in the CVS repository, it
should be pretty simple.

I tried once to do the conversion, and got some issues with encoding.

I guess I'll work on it ASAP, just to make sure we can do it. then it'll
be your call: either you're happy with the git repository and we keep
it, or you're not really confident with it, and we drop it.

> In my opinion, as soon as 3.1 is out, we should freeze the development
> and focus on cvs -> git conversation whatever it takes. We already
> discussed the problem inherited from cvs while thinking about releasing
> 3.1 sooner, we should not use CVS for 3.2.
> 

+1

I know that using git for pgAdmin really makes a difference in my way of
contributing to it (ie, more code written, less burden).

> > 
> >>>    - Mailing lists
> >>
> >> Following our discussion during the PGCon2011, I think we can ask for a
> >> dedicated mailing list @postgresql.org
> > 
> > Well, I would like to use my own mailing list server. What I want to
> > do is, assigned sequence number in subject. This is extremly
> > usefull. It's a "logical unique identifier" for each message and
> > people could easily referer to particular message. I will have hard
> > time to move existing pgfoundry mail archives because they don't have
> > the "logical identifier".
> > 

Mails from PostgreSQL mailing lists have specific ID you can search for
in the mailing list archives.

> >>>    - Wiki and blogs
> >>
> >> Yeah, the website and a wiki could be hosted on your pgpool.net server I
> >> guess. But then, it would be awesome if the wiki could authenticate
> >> using our postgresql community accounts.
> > 
> > Do you know how to do it techinicaly?
> > 
> >> I'm not personally convinced about blogs though.
> > 
> > Me too:-) Just it seems every develper site has "developer blogs"
> > these days. Probably the blog is used only for site managers.
> > 

You probably mean a Planet? Planet PgPool would be cool :)


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