1120709 - Migrate SeaMonkey website from CVS to hg

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Services :: Legacy VCS, defect)

Description

[Ian Neal]

The SeaMonkey project depends on cvs for the website it should be moved to a modern source control application such as SVN. If need be, the HgSubversion extension for Mercurial could be used.

This is spun off from the tracking bug 1057920

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Jens, from irc with some folks at Mozilla. On the repo side itself there is preference for hg.

Am I correct that hg is also your preference (instead of svn )

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Moved component per limbs telling me the old place is going away

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Yeah, I'd love to take advantage of q management for preparing website changes. But I understand this can be achieved on top of SVN, too, so I feel the actual decision should really be up to the guys setting up the push-website-changes-live server side.

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

I have no issues with it being on hg rather than svn

Comment 5

[Ian Neal]

Are there any time scales for this?

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

Who needs to initiate this or is it just a matter of waiting for a time slot?

Comment 7

[Hal Wine [:hwine] use NI!]

What's the status on this - cvs.mozilla.org is scheduled to be decommissioned shortly. See bug 1057920 comment 7.

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

Hi, as per comment 6, what do we need to do to initiate this?

Comment 9

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

We just need somewhere to host this website that's accessible.

Where in hg.mozilla.org can we put this?

Comment 10

[Hal Wine [:hwine] use NI!]

(In reply to Edmund Wong (:ewong) from comment #9)
> We just need somewhere to host this website that's accessible.
> 
> Where in hg.mozilla.org can we put this?

I think the "right" place is under hg.mozilla.org://www/

Which commit level should the repository have?

Comment 11

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

(In reply to Hal Wine [:hwine] (use needinfo) from comment #10)
> (In reply to Edmund Wong (:ewong) from comment #9)
> > We just need somewhere to host this website that's accessible.
> > 
> > Where in hg.mozilla.org can we put this?
> 
> I think the "right" place is under hg.mozilla.org://www/
> 
> Which commit level should the repository have?

I'm going to suggest L2.   Jens, Callek, any opinion?

Comment 12

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

(In reply to Edmund Wong (:ewong) from comment #11)
> I'm going to suggest L2.   Jens, Callek, any opinion?

Personally I'd tend more toward L3, i.e. same as comm-central.

Technically, only those who worked on the website until now need access. All those people have L3 anyway.

Trust wise, (only) if someone is allowed to make changes to SM code, they should be experienced enough to take caution. Bear in mind that changes to the website will almost instantly go live (which is why I have/use a staging environment).

Comment 13

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

(In reply to Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley) from comment #12)
> (In reply to Edmund Wong (:ewong) from comment #11)
> > I'm going to suggest L2.   Jens, Callek, any opinion?
> 
> Personally I'd tend more toward L3, i.e. same as comm-central.
> 
> Technically, only those who worked on the website until now need access. All
> those people have L3 anyway.
> 
> Trust wise, (only) if someone is allowed to make changes to SM code, they
> should be experienced enough to take caution. Bear in mind that changes to
> the website will almost instantly go live (which is why I have/use a staging
> environment).

True.  Since you're the owner of the website,  L3, then.

Comment 14

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

Since it's nearing the end of March, can someone point out who I should contact
to get this migrated?  If I remember, there's also some hooks that regularly
polls the cvs website repo for changes and post 'em to the website.  That
needs to be changed as well, though I have no idea where.

Thanks

Comment 15

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

As Laura commented in bug 1057920, CVS is scheduled to be decommissioned by today. We can hold on a little while longer but we need to close out the SeaMonkey bugs.

Hal - Can you please help Edmund get the SeaMonkey site migrated to Hg?

Comment 16

[Hal Wine [:hwine] use NI!]

Ed - I've opened all the needed bugs to complete the website move, with all the different groups. You can follow progress via the dependency chain.

Comment 17

[Hal Wine [:hwine] use NI!]

The cvs repository has been set to readonly mode.