[request-tracker-maintainers] Alioth move and the old SVN history

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:49:21PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it would be nice to save the old SVN history in
> 
>  svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/pkg-request-tracker/packages/request-tracker3.4
>  svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/pkg-request-tracker/packages/request-tracker3.6
>  svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/pkg-request-tracker/packages/request-tracker3.8
> 
> before alioth goes away, ideally by converting it to git and maybe merging
> it to request-tracker4.git somehow. I suppose even just running a plain
> 'git svn clone' on those would be much better than nothing.
> 
> I'll try to look into this at some point but I'm very happy if someone
> else wants to tackle it :)

I've run an svn to git migration on the first two and the results are
in 

https://salsa.debian.org/request-tracker-team/request-tracker3.4
https://salsa.debian.org/request-tracker-team/request-tracker3.6

I didn't migrate the 3.8 svn repository as the mainline part of that
is already in the request-tracker4 git. The request-tracker3.6 migration
was very straightforward; the request-tracker3.4 was too although it
wasn't so clean and I removed the upstream "branch" which contained
multiple versioned upstream releases - they weren't interesting from a
historical point of view and doesn't match a standard layout.

Cheers,
Dominic.