users fetching source

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 29 January 2013 11:27, Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
>> Hi Patrick,
>> On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Patrick McEvoy wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> I just spoke to Eitan and he suggested I contact you. I have put together the audio and slides from Eitans last talk at NYCBUG and would like to put together a blurb at the end regarding users fetching source. While speaking to Eitan I mentioned the work Ike and others have done consolidating notes here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UsersFetchingSource
>>> He mentioned that you guys may be doing something with this page. If so are you planning to change the URL? I would like to have a one stop page for info to help ease the transition and would like it to be a URL I can count on not going dark a few months after I put the video on Youtube. If you have any ideas or suggestions, I am all ears.
>>> Thank you for all your work on FreeBSD.
>> 
>> I started that wiki page to consolidate the complexities of the issue, to help it's resolution.
>> 
>> I'll be happy to make sure that url continues to exist for some time, hopefully, replacing/archiving the page contents once a solution is in place that the FreeBSD community feels is adequate.
>> 
>> Currently, John Mehr has exciting work happening towards a solid "svnup" utility, and I've been off on the ctm list hacking on a "ctmup" stop-gap in shell.
>> 
>> --
>> Regardless, I'll do my best to make sure that page keeps up with the issue, and I can make sure the URL is there for at least some months to come.
>> 
>> I just updated the top of the page to tell people the URL is important.
> 
> Of further interest is https://wiki.freebsd.org/CvsIsDeprecated which
> is the content of the page that the CVS exporter will direct people
> to.
> 
> This page will eventually be turned into a page on the website instead
> of the wiki.

Good one- I just linked to it from the UsersFetchingSource page- thanks Eitan!

Best,
.ike