[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD.org begins switch to Subversion

The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. There is a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis. People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, csup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. You do not need to change anything if you do not wish to. We are committed to maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for *at least* the support lifetime of all existing "stable" branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations. The rest of the FreeBSD-6 and FreeBSD-7 releases will be built and released from the CVS tree. We expect to make our Subversion based source tree and other supporting infrastructure public very soon. There will be new mailing lists to subscribe to if you wish to receive Subversion commit notifications. Our ports, doc and www trees are not affected at this time. A separate decision will be made regarding the direction of those CVS repositories soon. Many people have contributed to the effort, but I particularly wish to thank Michael Haggerty and the cvs2svn project developers for their assistance with extracting and decrypting our 14 years of CVS history. Yahoo (my employer) donated server hardware and allowed me to spend a considerable amount of time on the preparation, assembling the infrastructure, and the conversion. -- Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell