[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio Seeds to git [Was: Re: Vision for 19.04 and beyond]

[Ross Gammon]

On 10/15/2018 07:23 AM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> On 10/14/2018 06:01 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ross Gammon wrote:
>>
>>> With all these changes to seeds, I would recommend converting from
>>> bazaar to git before we start. We are the last flavour to do it I
>>> believe. I am happy to take that on if required.
>>
>> That would be wonderful. It seems that for the history to be right a
>> number of seeds would have to be added as branches. Or do we start fresh
>> for d*? That is the main thing keeping me from trying. Most of our
>> packages are just master linearly with tags (though branches will appear
>> for bug fixes). They were easy :) (well maybe we did them wrong too).
>>
>> -- 
>> Len Ovens
>> www.ovenwerks.net
>>
>>
> 
> There is a guide to how to do it here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Germinate/ConvertingToGit
> 
> The past releases appear as git branches. See example for Lubuntu here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/lubuntu/
> 
> But at the bottom of the conversion guide, is an explanation of how you
> could archive the history in another separate repo. But I would prefer
> to keep the history in one place. That is what a VCS is for!
> 
> I would be nervous about doing the switch just before a release.
> Although it would avoid the release team having to create the d* bzr
> branch for us using the old procedure. Maybe we could do it as soon as
> the release is announced?
> 
> Ross
> 

I have followed the guide and created the git repository for the seeds:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntustudio

I have prepared an update for the ubuntustudio-meta package (converted
to git), which is just waiting for when the d* development release opens
for work (and we know the name - diligent dog? :-) ):
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntustudio-meta/+git/ubuntustudio-meta

I have prepared the changes to the ubuntu-archive-scripts:
https://code.launchpad.net/~rosco2/ubuntu-archive-scripts/trunk

And the changes to the cdimages:
https://code.launchpad.net/~rosco2/ubuntu-cdimage/ubuntustudio-seeds-git

So we should be ready to go sometime after Cosmic is released. Then We
should delete the supported seed branches to avoid accidental updates to
the old repositories.

Cheers,

Ross