Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 07/23/2010 11:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> The conversion will take a couple days, which means our normal short
>> outage for branching will be a bit extended.  I wish there was another
>> way, but converting over 9K cvs repos into git repos does take some
>> time.  I really feel that this move is worth the extended outage.
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> The conversion process has begun.  We have just over 10K repos to
> convert, and nearly 200 are done already.  I'm employing a second host
> to help conversion to cut down on the over all outage time.
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> I was not able to get a fedpkg (fedora-packager) build out today,
> however as soon as that repo is converted and we get the koji changes in
> place to build from git we will use that as a test build and get the
> updated fedpkg into your hands.
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> I've also started on some wiki work to change some CVS pages, but much
> more will come.  Any help here is appreciated.

So once the package is converted is the git repo read/write so we can
begin updates or is it all down until the conversion is complete?

Also is there a wiki page outlining the rough conversion from old to
new commands and other such policy/procedure changes?

Cheers,
Peter