Re: (Final) Migration of the website to from CVS to Git, and from Alioth to Salsa (Bug #845297)

Hello again

Sorry, the number of the bug is #845297.

The rest of the message I think it's correct.

Cheers


El 30/05/18 a las 12:32, Laura Arjona Reina escribió:
> Dear all
> 
> TL;DR
> =====
> * Today (in 1-2 hours) we'll migrate the Debian website repo from CVS to Git,
> and from Alioth to Salsa
> * CVS commits (to cvs.debian.org:/cvs/webwml) will be disabled
> * The migration will probably take the whole day. Please be patient
> * The resulting repo will be in https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml
> (we'll send another mail when it's ready)
> * The translation workflow will be mostly the same, but still needs work
> * Stay tuned in #debian-www IRC and/or subscribe to Bug #846297 for details or
> reporting issues.> * Thanks to everybody involved!
> =====
> 
> Long version
> ============
> 
> We have been working in migrating the website to Git, trying to keep the usual
> workflows of this team (and translators), and although some things still need
> work, I think we are ready for the final migration (on the other hand, CVS will
> be disabled on May 31st so we have not much possibility of delaying this).
> 
> This is the current status of things and the plan:
> 
> 0.- For working on this, we have been used (and we are still using):
> 
> * bug report #846297
> * the wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/WebsiteGitTransition
> * The migration test repos under https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/tests
> 
> If you want more details about anything explained here, you probably will find
> them in the above links.
> 
> 1.- The proposal is to disable CVS commits (turn the webwml repo read-only)
> TODAY 30 May 2018 around 12:00 UTC.
> If you have pending work to commit to the website, please hurry up, or wait for
> the migration to be complete (we estimate between 12 and 24h later), and then
> commit to the resulting git repo in Salsa.
> 
> 2.- After the CVS repo is set read-only, we will run the script cvs2git (thanks
> Paul Wise for providing it!) to convert it to git.
> 
> This step takes around 13h to complete.
> 
> The script also produces a file cvs-revisions which lists, for each file and CVS
> revision, the corresponding commit hash. The script also includes in the commit
> messages the list of changed files and CVS revisions.
> 
> The resultant git repo will be uploaded to:
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml
> 
> 3.- Then we will run another script, switch_to_git_translations.pl (thanks Steve
> McIntyre for providing it!) to change, in every translated file, the
> "translation-check" header to use a commit hash instead of the old CVS revision
> numbers. We will commit that changes to
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml
> 
> This step takes some minutes to complete.
> 
> Note that this is a massive change across the website, touching many files. We
> may get build errors in the following days, not related to the migration itself,
> but to the fact that some pages are being built now after a long time, and we
> may find problems in their wml/Perl code (e.g. using syntax that is deprecated
> in Debian stretch).
> 
> 4.- At that point, our git repo https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml
> should be mostly usable, and people should be able to continue their work
> committing to salsa.
> 
> However, there are some things to take into account:
> 
> * We'll need to change our cron scripts to use the git repo instead of the old CVS
> * The script stattrans.pl that is run daily to produce the language statistics
> webpages (e.g. https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/es ) runs correctly
> but it still needs work to produce a useful output
> * The script copypage.pl should work well and we encourage to use it for new
> translations
> * We have a *NEW* implementation of smart_change.pl which is limited to
> supporting git commit hashes.
> * We still need to update the documentation (www.debian.org/devel/website)
> 
> We'll send another mail (with more details about the steps post migration and
> how can you help), when the git repo is ready.
> 
> Thanks to everybody that contributed in the past and in the last weeks to
> create, improve and adapt the scripts that support the Debian website
> infrastructure.
> 
> Kind regards,
>