From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 15:52:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAF125C; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:52:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44195738; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r0PFqEKG096191; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:52:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:52:14 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: svn - but smaller? In-Reply-To: <5102A6F9.9070303@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20130126024101.H76686@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20130123144050.GG51786@e-Gitt.NET> <20130124093846.5e683474@laptop> <20130124085717.GA26673@icarus.home.lan> <20130125235425.T76686@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <5102A6F9.9070303@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:52:22 -0000 On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:38:33 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 25/01/2013 13:38, Ian Smith wrote: > > I'm trying to work out exactly when support for checking out 9-STABLE > > CVS sources - and I'm only talking about system sources here - will end? > > The date that CVS for src will cease to be kept in sync with SVN and > when cvsup etc. are officially withdrawn for src -- that date has not > been announced yet[*] All we know with any certainly is that CVS is > deprecated and will be withdrawn sooner rather than later. > > There will be an announcement closer to the end-date once that has > firmed up. I assume that there will be a reasonable grace period for > die-hard CVS/cvsup users to finish getting themselves sorted out, > although given the quantity of advance warnings sensible people will > already be well advanced (if not complete) in their projects for > migrating away. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thankyou for that Matthew. Hopefully by then we might have something lighter than full-blown SVN for die-hard (cough) and newbie users alike. > [*] Unlike ports CVS which is closing down on 28th February Sure. Deadlines are fine, especially whilever still in the future :) cheers, Ian