[openib-general] SVN deprecation

[Jeff Squyres]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> Lets leave these sources with a readme stating they are  
> unmaintained along with the gen2/branches/1.1 sources at least for  
> the dev/release cycle of OFED 1.2

Do you have a reason for this?  I ask because even if sources are  
"svn rm"ed, they are still available in the SVN history for anyone  
who really needs them.  It just makes the process one step more  
difficult to get to the old sources (which is kinda the point -- we  
want people to get them from git, not accidentally get them from SVN  
and wonder why everything is so old / they can't find what people are  
talking about on the mailing lists / or worse, not realize that  
they're old, etc.).

My thought was that if people accidentally check out of SVN, there  
should be [almost] nothing at the HEAD except a README stating that  
everything has moved to git (and instructions if you need to get into  
the SVN history) so that it's blatantly obvious that there's nothing  
new in SVN anymore.

If all you do is put a README file at the HEAD without removing  
anything, it's just too easy to miss (this has already happened  
several times) -- people will peruse the source and think that it's  
the most current stuff.

That's my $0.02...

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems