[HEADS UP] XML migration and opening of projects/

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> the migration to SVN and the related reorganization seem to have gone
> seamlessly. However, the planned doc infrastructure improvements are not
> finished yet. The next item on our TODO list is the long overdue XML
> migration. Now we have a proper VCS system that supports renames and
> moves in the tree so we can follow up with bigger reorganizations.
> (Side note: do not be afraid of the changes, authoring will not be more
> complicated at all.)
>
> This XML migration is quite a complex reorganization and as such, it
> cannot be done on the mainline of doc development so we decided to do it
> in a separate branch. Also, this project will be the first
> experiment on branching and merging back changes to head. To open
> projects/ for the public we have to carefully evaluate the potential
> scenarios of merging and choose that one that best suites our
> development model. We at doceng will work out a draft about using
> projects/ and merging changes back to head. We will post this to doc@
> and once the policies and best practices are established, finally
> projects/ will be open for the big public.
>
> You can expect to see our draft policies in 2-3 weeks, so projects/ may
> be open around mid-July.

How automated is the conversion?  Put another way: should we delay major 
whitespace or content commits to existing SGML documents?