[lgfaq] Subversive Thinking

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> The LGFAQ, is currently broken (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644), this may mean we're moving to subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) sooner, rather than later.
> My main requirement is merely that a similar script exists for updating the web version, with a similar amount of TTL. A web interface should exist within, say, two months after swap.

CVS is working again now. It was a Gentoo bug.

The heart of the issue is explained in the bug report I opened here:
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49879

> If anybody hates SVN for a good reason, let me know.
> If you love it, and want to marry it, let me know why.

Short of "cvs is going away completely", there isn't a good reason to
run to svn, other than all contributors want to switch. In that case, it
makes a lot of sense for this project, since you don't have external
people updating from CVS (that is, the end user wants the website, not
the repository), so there's really no baggage.

But that's totally up to the contributors.

The conversion to svn is trivial: I run cvs2svn on the existing
repository, and then change the cronjob to update with svn and not cvs.
At this moment, this is strictly a question of what the lgfaq writers
prefer to use.

--ryan.