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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/04/10 10:03, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:03 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > I'd like to discuss reviews of new code imports.
> >
> > Currently SVN and CVS code imports require review before working. What
> > are the reasons for this?
> I'm not sure about the reasons for requiring review for the CVS imports,
> but at least for the Subversion servers it's to prevent people from
> accidentally registering an import of the repository root, causing a lot
> of disk usage and processing time on Launchpad's side. Copies are cheap
> in Subversion (E.g. creating a new tag) but, unless they're branch
> copies, they're expensive in Bazaar.

And maybe it's because of a confusing UI, but people get this wrong a 
lot, and maybe 30-50% of svn imports need to be corrected before approval.

> The heuristics code in bzr-svn could be used to automatically approve
> Subversion branches that appear legitimate (I've only seen a few
> situations where it didn't gets the repository layout right).

Ah yes, I must get you to tell me or someone else how to do that!

Cheers,
mwh