Migrating all seeds to Git

Ross Gammon rosco2 at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 31 14:24:22 UTC 2018


Thanks Steve,

On 10/18/2018 05:22 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Ross,
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 03:54:43PM +0200, Ross Gammon wrote:
>> On 06/28/2018 12:07 PM, Robie Basak wrote:

[snip]

>> I know we are all very busy with the release today, but I am writing to
>> let you know that Ubuntu Studio have finally followed Simon's excellent
>> instructions, and we now have a copy of our seeds in git. I have also
>> prepared updates to -meta, archive-scripts and cd-image. We would like
>> to kick off the switch as soon as Cosmic is released and all the
>> beers/tea have been drunk.

[snip]

> Thanks, I've gone ahead and landed the change to ubuntu-archive-scripts to
> use the git branch instead, so this is ready to go without any friction when
> we start opening DD.  In the very, very unlikely event that you need further
> seed changes for cosmic before release, please update them in git as well as
> in bzr.
>
> I am not landing the cdimage branch change yet because that code branch
> shouldn't be taking non-release-critical changes at this point in the
> release cycle; but I've raised an MP:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~rosco2/ubuntu-cdimage/ubuntustudio-seeds-git/+merge/357095
>
> I notice that
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntustudio
> only contains converted branches for the currently-supported releases.  I
> recommend that you convert all of the releases, not just the
> currently-supported ones, so that all of the history is in one place and you
> can delete the bzr branches to avoid any confusion.

I saw that the cdimage change was merged. Thanks.
All the other git branches have been created, and all the bzr ones that
I could delete - have been deleted.

There is an updated ubuntustudio-meta package waiting for sponsorship -
then we are done!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-meta/+bug/1800817

Cheers
Ross




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