svnweb persistence

Gordon Bergling gbe at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 14 17:57:24 UTC 2020


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:44:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:42 AM Gordon Bergling <gbe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > regarding the upcoming switch from subversion to git. Is it planned that
> > svnweb.freebsd.org is kept alive?
> >
> > There are numerous sources on the web where this host is referenced for
> > commits.
> >
> 
> That's the plan for the foreseeable future, but some years from now we may
> turn it off.
> 
> Warner

Thanks for the good news. Since the source repository has a history of nearly
20+ years, I would recommended that we keep that CNAME for at least this period
of time alive. Maybe a static version, so that we don't have to keep the
whole subversion infrastructure intact.

--Gordon


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