From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 04:21:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B989A644 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:21:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-4.MIT.EDU [18.9.25.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEF58FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:21:52 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 1209190f-b7f636d00000095b-e4-5091f8d962a4 Received: from mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.35]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 8B.9A.02395.9D8F1905; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:21:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id qA14Ljdh007147; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:21:45 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (SYSTEM-LOW-SIPB.MIT.EDU [18.187.2.37]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id qA14Lhl6014409 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:21:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id qA14LgM1026149; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:21:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:21:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: removing the article about "how to set up CVS" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFnrBIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixCmqrHvzx8QAg2lPDSymftzJarHoRDuT A5PHtM0H2TxmfJrPEsAUxWWTkpqTWZZapG+XwJWxc65+wQ/2it8HHBsYV7N1MXJwSAiYSNw+ otLFyAlkiklcuLeeDcQWEtjHKHHlcVkXIxeQvZ5R4te7q+wQznEmiWeHlrJAVNVLzLi7jBXE ZhHQkli2tg8sziagIjHzzUawSSICahLvXnczgtjMQHbTn0vsILawgLXE5r6lTCA2p0CgxKaN /1lBDuIVcJDYMcsIYnyAxKQJ28DGiAroSKzePwVsPK+AoMTJmU9YIEZaSpz7c51tAqPgLCSp WUhSCxiZVjHKpuRW6eYmZuYUpybrFicn5uWlFuma6OVmluilppRuYgQHqCT/DsZvB5UOMQpw MCrx8BqUTgwQYk0sK67MPcQoycGkJMpr/RUoxJeUn1KZkVicEV9UmpNafIhRgoNZSYT3cTdQ jjclsbIqtSgfJiXNwaIkzns15aa/kEB6YklqdmpqQWoRTFaGg0NJgvfwd6BGwaLU9NSKtMyc EoQ0EwcnyHAeoOFfQGp4iwsSc4sz0yHypxgVpcR5V4EkBEASGaV5cL2wBPKKURzoFWFeT5Aq HmDyget+BTSYCWiwigXY4JJEhJRUA6P3pU19nFwqIuv+P56qqmMT+KD1wx3VuxNnie50Kzjk FWD08w1DzmvXPYdqFz8IPW33Q+2a18WuRfG1T/lfcQvHMPfsYywLdU46en76njPuMdZy2xKZ WpI51kbfFjv4P9Ew80zBTbZg9/opTd+n8vN2PLl6+GYL77QnvM8Ms2OdRcPmuSeZBSuxFGck GmoxFxUnAgBNZ/aL+wIAAA== Cc: FBSD Doc project X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:21:53 -0000 On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: > I'd like to remove > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.html > > - its old > - CVS will be eventually removed from base > - no one should use CVS anymore anyways I'm not convinced any of those are valid reasons to remove it. > > any objections? Removing it because it is basically promoting the FreeBSD-specific CVS hooks and scripts that we do not use any more (other than projects) as the authoritative setup, would seem more reasonable. I think that in some of your other "kill (references to) CVS" campaigns you have devalued cvs-projects too much, but here I feel less strongly. That is because my understanding is that we are recommending svn (whether user or project areas) for *new* projects, and not actively trying to kill cvs projects. People who are using cvs-projects and want something like it locally ought to have a hat pointy enough to not need this document to do it. -Ben Kaduk