Minutes from FDSCo (03-May-2005)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 18:44 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:13 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 13:46 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> > > Uttered Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, spake thus:
> > > 
> > > > Ah, I see.  I'd say that we do have CVS history worth saving, presuming
> > > > that it's still there from before the move.
> > > > 
> > > > How about we do all new documents as new modules, and when Elliott is
> > > > available, we can have him do the change.  I'd guess that shell access
> > > > on cvs.fedora is hard to come by.
> > > 
> > > I'd think that too.  In that case, Elliott can do the whole shebang in
> > > about three minutes, while Paul and I watch over his shoulder and
> > > joggle his elbow.
> > 
> > Here's a patch that I guess will work for now.  Karsten, you have commit
> > perms for CVSROOT/ so you will need to put this one up.  I don't think
> > we'll need shell access for anything.  If we can get Elliot to simply
> > put us in the CVSROOT/avail file as having rights to write to
> > CVSROOT/modules (and really we only need that file, I think), we can add
> > modules when needed.
> 
> I thought Tommy was saying that we _couldn't_ just write the new modules
> file this way because we'd lose CVS history for those modules.  Or is
> this patch in preparation for Elliott doing cvs-fu?  We can actually
> find someone else to do that cvs-fu, instead of panting on Elliott's
> doorstep for his return.  Otherwise, I'll apply the patch.
> 
> Thanks for doing this!

I didn't understand the ramifications; ignore my patch.  Tommy, maybe
you could do some tests on a dummy repository to find out what the right
course of action is.

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