Warning of interuption to CTM update service:

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 12/23/20 8:46 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
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> Hi, Reference:
>> From:		"Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen at missouri.edu>
>> Date:		Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:56:00 +0000
> 
> "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" wrote:
>> On 12/20/20 10:52 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi ctm-users at freebsd.org,
>>>
>>> Warning of interuption to CTM update service:
>>>
>>> http://freebsd.org are about to abandon use of SVN, & move to Git.
>>> 	https://wiki.freebsd.org/git
>>>
>>> Apparently FreeBSD ports will continue to use Svn for some while.
>>>
>>> http://ctm.berklix.org extracts FreeBSD sources using SVN,
>>> before using CTM to send updates for source trees
>>> 	src-4 src-5 src-6 src-7 src-8 src-9 src-10 src-11 src-12 
>>> 	src-cur ports-cur svn-cur
>>>
>>> So as a first step on ctm.berklix.org I have run pkg install git
>>>
>>> Thanks to Gary J cc'd for the alert.
>>
>> As maintainer of CTM, I don't intend to keep up maintenance from
>> subversion to git.  The number of users of CTM is small, and I don't
>> think it is worth the manpower.
>>
>> Obviously if someone else wishes to take over, they are most welcome.
>> I'm willing to answer questions and help out some.
>>
>> Stephen
> 
> Thanks for all your past work Stephen!
> I believe in the push model of CTM, great for everyone with
> intermittent, slow, or expensive when mobile net access etc.  (eg
> dark side of the moon ;-), or laptop on trains, offices behind other
> companies firewalls etc)
> 
> I would do more, beyond hosting & mail lists, what's stopped me
> before is A) you ran it fine B) opacity: similarity of crontab
> script names do-A do-B do-C & multiplicity of enormous trees. A
> guide would be useful. I'm not clear which if all the trees on the
> server are used by your scripts or if some tree are ones I created
> & could prune.
> 
> Can I put your crontab & scripts up read only under http://ctm.berklix.org
> along with 1 or more du lists, as 1st stage to me & others understanding
> with your advice how it works, before we try modifying svn commands
> to git.  I would omit secret generator keys to avoid later spoofing
> of the feed ?
> 
> Others helping would be welcome, especially re. git commands, nice
> if conversion work & knowledge is shared.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

All the code I wrote on berklix is totally open source as far as I am
concerned.  Post it as you like.