[Zope-dev] How to signal that projects have moved to github

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 01/10/2013 10:42 AM, Patrick Gerken wrote:
>> I am in favor of removing the trunks. People who do not want to switch
>> to git can still get the trunk by pinning to a specific revision. I
>> run a CI tool and it is broken already because apparently a trunk has
>> been deleted already. Thats not a bug, thats why I run the CI Tool.
>> Would be stupid if I continue to test a trunk not in use.
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> It isn't just CI:  people may have projects running from SVN checkouts,
> which we break without warning (the Plone devs have been notorious for
> causing such breakage for years).

I still think breakage is better.  If they're using trunk, without
pinning a revision, it must be because they want the latest code.
They won't get that from svn.  This is a case where I think it's
better to fail in an obvious way.

Jim

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