Re: Editors: Going with hg or sticking with CVS?

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
> So I checked in with Systems Team over
>
> cvs.w3.org:/w3ccvs
>
> being available or mirrored magically with:
>
> dev.w3.org:/sources/public
>
> as currently, looking at dev.w3.org, there's no "2012" branch :)
>
> They responded that dev.w3.org and cvs.w3.org are deliberately separate
> repositories with different access rights and different services so should
> not be mixed as only cvs.w3.org:/w3ccvs reflects on www.w3.org mirrors while
> dev.w3.org:/sources/public has publicly visible cvsweb and anonymous public
> cvs pserver.
>
> Another option is we have a HG (mercurial) repo
>
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcrypt
>
> That we could reset to make "webcrypto" and then move over Editors Drafts of
> both the existing API and a "new" use-case document over there.
>
> Editors - any opinion?
>
> Also, a plus of dev.w3.org/dvcs.w3.org is the public nature of the repos.
> Arun thought that the more public, the better, and I tend to agree.
>
>    cheers,
>        harry
>
>

HG. All the way. I have previously expressed support for this on calls.

If anything, simply being able to diff between revisions is worth
whatever reposistory-switch overhead. I'm a big fan of small commits
with easily referenced URLs, which the current CVS system does not
encourage.

Received on Friday, 19 October 2012 17:27:41 UTC