On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:55:52PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Stuart Herbert wrote:
> 
> >> __Problem: CVS__
> >>
> >> CVS is one of the worst application ever created.  
> > 
> > Hear, hear.
> > 
> > I'd like to see a move to Subversion made a priority for 2006.  If there
> > are problems with Subversion's performance with our tree, engage with
> > its authors to obtain improvements.  But get it done.
> 
> Here's an idea I had tonight. Since we're going to be doing the Google
> SoC this summer, perhaps a great project would be having someone work on
> this migration (or at least do an unbiased test implementation). I'd be
> willing to provide an infra server for testing/development. I don't see
> much problem at least trying to work out all the details. I don't think
> infra will go with any change unless there is a clear, detailed
> migration plan with proper back-out plans also. The tree is the most
> important part of our distribution and I'm not going to let such a
> migration go by without proper planning and testing. After the test
> implementation is done and has been fully tested, perhaps the council
> could make the final decision if infra is happy with the
> implementation/migration details.

It looks like if/when implemented, GLEP 44 (Manifest2) will significantly reduce
the number of small files in the tree. Whoever ends up doing the initial
benchmarking and testing should probably keep this in mind.

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