Imminent tzdata import (was: Re: Vendor Imports in Subversion)

[Philip Paeps]

On 2020-12-09 14:47:18 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The git working group is making final preparations for the cut over in two
> weeks (currently planned to start December 19). There's one item that's
> caused some recent problems that we'd like to ask the committer's help on:
> vendor imports. We've had a few vendor imports of late that have caused
> problems for the git converter. Imports should be done from the top level
> so that the merge info winds up in the right place. uqs@ has added code to
> defensive code to detect the recent problems, but we're not sure it will
> catch everything.
>
> So, over the next two weeks, we'd like to ask that committers refrain from
> doing vendor imports in the src tree for those cases where delay is
> possible. For vendor imports that can't wait, due to security or other
> serious issues, please coordinate with git at freebsd.org before doing the
> vendor import. If there's a confidential matter, you can contact me (
> imp at freebsd.org) or the core team instead.
>
> Thanks for your understanding...
>
> Warner
> On behalf of the git working group

I expect there will be one more tzdata import this year.  Probably in the next week or so.

I could potentially hold this one off, but one of the timezones in Russia is changing at short notice and we do have a sizeable number of users in Russia.

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-December/029607.html

It sounds like the timezone is changing on 27 December 2020 (argh) but we won't know for sure until next week (argh argh).

Given that tzdata imports are exceedingly trivial, perhaps this is actually a best-case first import to try out the process?  Happy to coordinate with you guys.

Philip

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises
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