Re: HEADS UP: pkgsrc -> git migration starting in earnest

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:42:11 +0200
    From:        Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <1A3D73CE-B934-4781-ADDB-435E2F4BEAA6%NetBSD.org@localhost>

  | But *there is no official approval* from core@ or board@.

Thomas, I don't know exactly what you're looking for, but when a
member of core@ posts a public message, copies it to core@, doesn't
say expressly that it is just a personal opinion, and no other
core members object to it, you can take that message as being
"official approval" (whatever that actually means in this environment)
from core.

Taylor (riastradh@) sent such a message to tech-repository on Jan 4, 2025.

That was in response to a message from apb@ (my guess would be on behalf
of board@, but that message was before my time) in which he (Alan) asked:

> The NetBSD core group has been asked to make a statement on version
> control systems.

Taylor's message was that statement (which should have been obvious, as
it quoted Alan's message as its preamble).

If you're getting hung up on the way it says "Here is a plan..." that's
because Alan's message also said:

> However, the proponents
> of particular DVCS systems have not presented a coherent plan that
> can be used to implement a transition from the current system to a
> new system.

That is, what was needed was a transition plan.   So that was what was
provided.

That, and this, is about as official as you are likely to get.   While
the (ambitious) timeline proposed there has slipped, all of this depends
upon volunteers doing that work that is needed, there is more of that
than you might think.   I do not have an updated timeline to present
right now.

kre

ps: the date of Taylor's message, Jan 4, was also no accident, that was
also planned - 10 years to the day after Alan's message.