Warning of interuption to CTM update service:

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi, Reference:
> From:		"Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen at missouri.edu>
> Date:		Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:56:00 +0000

"Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" wrote:
> On 12/20/20 10:52 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 
> > Hi ctm-users at freebsd.org,
> > 
> > Warning of interuption to CTM update service:
> > 
> > http://freebsd.org are about to abandon use of SVN, & move to Git.
> > 	https://wiki.freebsd.org/git
> > 
> > Apparently FreeBSD ports will continue to use Svn for some while.
> > 
> > http://ctm.berklix.org extracts FreeBSD sources using SVN,
> > before using CTM to send updates for source trees
> > 	src-4 src-5 src-6 src-7 src-8 src-9 src-10 src-11 src-12 
> > 	src-cur ports-cur svn-cur
> > 
> > So as a first step on ctm.berklix.org I have run pkg install git
> > 
> > Thanks to Gary J cc'd for the alert.
> 
> As maintainer of CTM, I don't intend to keep up maintenance from
> subversion to git.  The number of users of CTM is small, and I don't
> think it is worth the manpower.
> 
> Obviously if someone else wishes to take over, they are most welcome.
> I'm willing to answer questions and help out some.
> 
> Stephen

Thanks for all your past work Stephen!
I believe in the push model of CTM, great for everyone with
intermittent, slow, or expensive when mobile net access etc.  (eg
dark side of the moon ;-), or laptop on trains, offices behind other
companies firewalls etc)

I would do more, beyond hosting & mail lists, what's stopped me
before is A) you ran it fine B) opacity: similarity of crontab
script names do-A do-B do-C & multiplicity of enormous trees. A
guide would be useful. I'm not clear which if all the trees on the
server are used by your scripts or if some tree are ones I created
& could prune.

Can I put your crontab & scripts up read only under http://ctm.berklix.org
along with 1 or more du lists, as 1st stage to me & others understanding
with your advice how it works, before we try modifying svn commands
to git.  I would omit secret generator keys to avoid later spoofing
of the feed ?

Others helping would be welcome, especially re. git commands, nice
if conversion work & knowledge is shared.

Cheers,
-- 
Julian Stacey  http://berklix.com/jhs/
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