Re: address@hidden: Re: [Jeff Bailey <address@hidden>] Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU and FSF Organizational Files]

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Joel N. Weber II <address@hidden> wrote:

> Why did it suddenly become critical to put all this [/gd/gnuorg] in CVS
> now?  If we don't have time to redisorganize correctly, I don't think we
> should be redisorganizing...

I see your point, and I understand where you are coming from.  It would be
nice to do it all at once.

However, CVS would give us some advantages right now, particularly to me
personally, that will help a lot.

Right now, I handle updates to a number of files in /gd/gnuorg, including,
for example, the phone directories.  More and more people who are
disconnected most of the time (such as RMS and Bob Chassell) are now sending
me updates for them.  They can't do the updates themselves because they are
disconnected most of the time.  With CVS, updates would be easier.

Plus, on files such as the events files, historical changes are being saved
by hand in various places.  This is mostly additional work for me, too.

(I am already working 12 hours a day to keep up with everything.)

A CVS-ified /gd/gnuorg, done as it is now, would help me and others
immensely right now, even without a full reorg with lots of subdirectories.

Besides, it's not *that* hard to move files around inside CVS.  We can do it
if we need to.  It's not like we will be "freezing" the current layout of
/gd/gnuorg simply by putting it in CVS.

Also, note that we've been trying to convince people to take /gd/gnuorg into
CVS for at least a year, and now finally we have consensus that it can be
done.  Let's seize this opportunity.

Would someone please do the import, as per the instructions elsewhere in
this thread?

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