svnweb persistence

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:57 AM Gordon Bergling <gbe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

To be fair, it's only 12 years of SVN data (prior to that it was CVS) and
we'll be retaining all the history in git with revision numbers, so we
might be able to do a redirect after we retire. When we did the CVS -> SVN
cutover, CVS was gone within a couple of years (I don't have the exact
timeline handy).

The data will be available for sure. We'll do our best to make sure the
links work, but if that proves to be too difficult, we may drop them. The
svn server will run for a few years still, at least to the end of 12.x
branch.

Warner