Re: cleaning list of octave forge developers

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18 June 2013 08:57, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 18 June 2013 02:20, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 17 June 2013 22:35, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17 Jun 2013, at 15:19, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Júlio Hoffimann
>>>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>> started to think the separation Octave-Forge != Agora doesn't make 
>>>>>>> sense at
>>>>>>> all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Julio, yes, eventually we will try to merge the two, that was part of
>>>>>> the original idea. But it will take time. Also we would like to keep a
>>>>>> hard wall between one-time commits to Agora and people who maintain
>>>>>> the packages and update them (i.e. OF)
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, if mercurial is gaining more importance on OF I think a link to it 
>>>>> in the
>>>>> navigation bar next to the SVN link, don't you agree?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. The SVN links should be replaced by Code with a link to the new
>>>> page http://octave.sourceforge.net/code.html
>>>
>>> Oh! The developers instructions at
>>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html also need a major
>>> rewrite. I'm in favor of having that link redirect to a page on the
>>> wiki.
>>>
>>> Carnë
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the ultimate tool for the migration form svn to hg?
>> I think people want to keep the history, right?
>> Otherwise I would go
>> svn export
>> and then commit the result to the hg repo.
>>
>> Let me know.
>
> Yes, we are keeping the history. I've started doing it slowly, one
> package at a time. Leaving some packages to the end because they
> either had many binary files committed by accident that I would like
> to strip from history, or because they have common history with other
> packages (for example, teh time package which was merged into
> financial).
>
> Carnë

So, shall I try to migrate geometry or you want to do it?