Subject: Re: [boost] [git] [conversion] Schedule and remaining showstoppers?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-24 23:24:50
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:01:17 AM UTC-7, Daniel James wrote:
>
> On 24 October 2013 02:54, Dave Abrahams <da..._at_[hidden] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> >
> > on Tue Oct 22 2013, "Paul A. Bristow" <pbristow-AT-hetp.u-net.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Will this also mean that the very many links in docs to Trac #1234
> >> fixed items will still work
> >> without any changes?
> >
> > Please show me an example of such a link.
>
> There are lots of such links in the release notes, e.g. in:
>
> http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_54_0.html
>
> Do a text search for #6999, #8421.
>
> They will work fine as long as we keep trac running. AFAIK there are
> no plans to turn it off (but maybe should prevent the creation of new
> tickets?). But if we ever turn it off, I'm sure we'll set something up
> to maintain the links.
>
> The implicit links in commit logs won't work on github (e.g. trac
> converts #6999 to a ticket link,
GitHub does too
> r83728 to a link to a changeset, I
> don't think github offers a way to do that),
But not that, as commits are differently-identified.
but since every revision
> should include a subversion commit number it will be pretty easy to
> find the changeset on trac where everything will be linked. We could
> possibly set up our own git viewer to manage that.
>
Possibly.