svn commit: r51850 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 04:54:05PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2018-06-16 16:43, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 08:20:35PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> Author: eadler
> >> Date: Sat Jun 16 20:20:34 2018
> >> New Revision: 51850
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51850
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Committer guide: remove non-exististant seed reference
> > Seeds are very much available.
> > They are provided e.g. at
> > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/development/subversion/
> > 
> > Why did you removed the useful text instead of asking ?
> > 
> 
> Sadly those seeds are from 2014 and 2015. There was talk about getting
> those updated again, I am not sure what happened.
These seeds cover at least 2/3 of the current history, which makes them
quite useful comparing with svnsync'ing the whole repo from scratch.
I maintain local mirrors for my own use and I appreciate the tarballs.

Sure, it would be useful to refresh, but the current state is not fatal.