On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 02:30:48PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote:
> I switched away from cvsup a while back, but I now see that github
> NetBSD/src mirror is now 5 days old. Known issue?
Yes, I believe joerg and spz are changing the conversion from
cvs->??->git to hg->git, to match what will be done once we stop using
CVS.
What's wrong with "??"? I think it's pretty well-known that Fossil has been the intermediary repository in NetBSD's conversion from CVS to Git since 2011, and it would seem that
https://src.fossil.netbsd.org/ is still up-to-date, FWIIW, whereas GitHub's src is 7 days behind.
I thought the plan to move to HG hasn't been finalised yet, am I missing something? Plus, why HG and not Fossil, if the end-result consumption is via Git anyways?
Last I heard fossil had scaling issues due to the large number of artifacts that needed to be tracked. I may be able to trawl notes and find some particulars, or Joerg may be able to comment from memory on the technical aspects.
I was really hopeful for fossil as a solution as it seems really sane for many reasons:
1) good user interface(s)
2) good, novel ticket handling
3) sane architecture
4) portable C implementation
5) BSD license
I think in the end though Joerg reckoned the scalability issue was too much.
-bch