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On 01/15/2013 02:28 PM, Ed Willink
wrote:
Hi
You may have been young, but not foolish; just diligent and
helpful. Unfortunately you now show up as a prominent contributor
our ten years of broken CVS legacy.
Go to http://wiki.eclipse.org/CVS_FAQ.
No mention of GIT anywhere.
I've added a bubble at the top of the page.
Click on the link to a CVS plugin at http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/dev.html
and you find yourself at http://git.eclipse.org/c/.
Not very helpful. No explanation of why the link has been totally
redirected. No clues as to how the old link might be reanimated.
I've changed the redirect to go to the CVS Wiki page, which features
the explanation and some instructions. If you create a better Wiki
page to help guide users, I will happily change the redirect to that
new page.
Denis
I certainly don't expect a rewrite of every old document; just
some redirects/click-throughs in prominent places and no needless
breakages.
So for the Eclipse Corner article referenced, a prominent one line
heading linking to some GIT policy page.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 15/01/2013 18:57, Wayne Beaton wrote:
That was 2006. I was young and foolish.
The post has multiple flaws. For one, hooking up to that
repository will bring in a whole host of crap that you don't
want. This is something that I've always wanted to do better,
but since nobody contributes to Eclipse Corner anymore, the
relevance of that work seemed negligible. And, in addition to
the Eclipse Corner articles no longer being in CVS, I no longer
have shirts to give out in exchange for contributions.
I believe that the community will forgive me for not updating
this blog post. I don't think that the nebulous community
expects to to go back and fix every historical document.
I don't know why anybody would search on "Eclipse Corner CVS". I
could see them searching on "Eclipse Papyrus", or "Articles
about Eclipse Modeling", or something.
Backward compatibility is important. But at some point you
sometimes have to break from the old and move forward.
Or have I missed the point?
Wayne
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