Additional darcs repositories to be migrated? (working to convert the darcs repositories)

Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.common-lisp-net.devel
Message-ID <CACOoB6ia89MF=sihJH9-jFKKMonT4Y0_CcvqAG1EG4YLoK=VfQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,

The current list of repositories to migrate from darcs to GitLab, is the
list shown on https://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi .

Are there any other repositories that need to be migrated to GitLab that
this community is aware of?

Thanks!

Regards,

Erik.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While running the first conversion tests, I ran into the following
> repositories (browsable through https://common-lisp.net/cgi-
> bin/darcsweb.cgi) already have GitLab repositories in place
> (<project>/<repository>):
>
> * adw-charting/adw-charting
> * alexandria/alexandria
> * bordeaux-threads/bordeau-threads
> * cl-store/cl-store
> * editor-hints/named-readtables
> * elephant/elephant
> * gestalt/gestalt
> * mel-base/mel-base
> * parenscript/parenscript
>
>
> Given the age of all of these repositories, I'm planning to archive these
> duplicated repositories and not migrate them to GitLab (as that would mean
> the repositories would be either duplicating other repositories or prior
> repositories would be overwritten).
>
>
> Any comments regarding this plan? Maybe someone knows that some of these
> repositories need to be migrated to GitLab - replacing what's currently
> there?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Erik.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After converting common-lisp.net to LetsEncrypt/certbot, I've taken a
>> bit of time to research the long-overdue move from darcs to Git.
>>
>> Fortunately, taking time away from a task allows for creativity to kick
>> in: I've found an (acceptable to me) way to bulk convert all repositories
>> listed in https://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi
>>
>> I'm likely to implement a minimal redirect from the existing darcsweb
>> URLs to the resulting GitLab git projects. However, since the commit SHAs
>> don't match, anything more complex requires pretty extensive mapping
>> tables. Please consider this as an invitation to do that work! :-)
>>
>>
>> Final announcement of a cut-over will be done 1 week in advance of the
>> cut-over itself. Cut-over will roughly take 4 hours when the window is
>> there (although I can't imagine anybody actually *using* these repositories
>> other than as read-only sources).
>>
>> --
>> Bye,
>>
>> Erik.
>>
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>> Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Bye,
>
> Erik.
>
> http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
> Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
>



-- 
Bye,

Erik.

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