[xfs-masters] no more ptools -> oss.sgi.com

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Wed Jan 21 23:21:59 CST 2009


Russell Cattelan wrote:
> At this point I going to to assume all "current" XFS code will be going 
> into the
> git trees on oss directly and things headed for ptools will be a pull 
> based on sgi's
> internal needs.
> 
> So I have shut down the cron jobs/scripts that move the ptools tree out 
> to oss.
> 
> The cvs trees will left on oss since they are still good a good 
> reference resource
> but at this point they are no longer being updated.

Can you put a big warning or something on cvsweb and/or the source code
pages on the website to make that obvious?  Otherwise we'll have people
pulling cvs and getting ancient code, and/or thinking the project is
dead, I'm afraid.  Maybe renaming the repo to xfs-historical etc or
similar would work, too?

-eric

> There are also  git cvsimport  trees that also have full xfs history and 
> probably
> provide better reference, since with Christoph's change to cvsps the commits
> to git should accurately represent the ptools mods.
> 
> 
> -Russell
> 
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