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[Andrew Zonenberg <azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately I don't have time to devote to migration either. I do vote
in favor of a switch to git though.

On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 13:05 +1100, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:59:20PM -0700, Jake wrote:
>         [...]
>         > So i deleted the folder entirely with rm -rf
>         ~/kicad_sources/kicad-lib.bzr/
>         >
>         > and when i ran the script again, now it seems to be working.
>         >
>         > i don't know anything about how bzr works, i am just
>         competent with
>         > git, so hopefully some bash scripting and bzr experts can
>         think of a
>         > way to restructure the install script to more consistently
>         deal with
>         > incomplete installations.  I think that a less intrepid user
>         than me
>         > (imagine!) would either have to delete all of
>         ~/kicad_sources and
>         > start over, or give up entirely.
>         >
>         > please let me know if i should post this problem in the
>         bugtracker
>         > or something else to make it easier to deal with, or if i
>         have done
>         > it right.
>         
>         Bazaar is virtually dead. Its userbase decrease day by day.
>         There are some bugs in it that presumably will never be fixed.
>         
>         For example, and this seems to be this case, if you stop a
>         "bzr up"
>         command abruptly, chances are that it will not be able to
>         recover by
>         himself, and you have to delete all and restart downloading
>         afresh.
>         
>         I keep on thinking that a git migration of all kicad project
>         repos should
>         be considered for sometime in the (near?) future...
>         
>         bye
>         
>         --
>         
>         
>         Marco Ciampa
>         
>         I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
>         
> 
> 
> I have no problem with using git, but we would need some volunteers
> with experience to perform the migration, test, and synchronize with
> bzr until the devs agree that the migration is a success and are ready
> to switch. This is no small job since the version history must be
> preserved and the bugtracker must also be migrated (preferably with no
> loss of information).
> 
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
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Andrew Zonenberg
PhD student, security group
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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