CVS Outage

[Gary Thomas]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 15:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> There will be an outage starting at 2008-04-19 18:00 UTC.  Initial
>> estimates show that 30 hours will be needed to complete the branching,
>> however this may drastically be reduced during the full run.
> 
> Unfortunately this outage is still ongoing.  I failed to get a
> notification when the first leg finished around 2am my time and lost 6~
> hours to sleep.  All the PackageDB settings are done (barring a few
> failures) and we're well into the packages that start with "p" for
> making the branches within CVS.  I expect it to take another half a day
> or so to finish.
> 
> Future Recommendation:
>   Enable methods of doing mass branching without incurring an outage.
> Make pkgdb be able to bypass mail sending, and make CVS be able to
> bypass mail sending for these operations.  Will take longer overall, but
> no outage.

Recommendation - switch to SVN (quite painless).  All of
these things are pretty simple to implement.  Things like
tagging become O(0) [i.e. constant and *fast*]

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