Re: Choosing a moment for the Bazaar switchover.

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks to Jason Earl and others, we've solved most of our Bazaar
> conversion issues.

Can we have a quick description of the state of the conversion business?
IIUC we now have a conversion that preserves the history, branches, and
tags from the CVS repository, plus adds the merge info coming from the
Arch (via the git) repository (and half-manually stuffed into the git
repository, thanks to Andreas), plus adds the rename info
guessed/inferred by git itself.

And that conversion can be done "easily" but cannot be updated later on
to incorporate changes in the CVS repository, forcing us into a "flag
day" scenario.

Right?

Also, what's the status of the Savannah hosting?  Looking at
http://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106612, it's not clear whether
"bzr+ssh" access is available, and whether emacs-commit is working.
Do we have a test branch setup there?  Anything else that might be
missing?
[ BTW ]

> When should we do this?  Some options:

>    1) Now, i.e., as soon as the conversion is ready (in which case we'll
>       start prepping knowing that it's for real this time).
>    2) When we branch for release.
>    3) Immediately after the release.

I think I'd prefer 2.  It should be a time where the release branch
(currently "trunk") doesn't see too much activity, which would help.


        Stefan