"to be converted later" section in exclude-rules

[brevilo]

This looks like an indicator that the ruleset wasn't fully completed at that time. How about Christian's workspace and those release tags?

[ChristianBeer]

As far as I'm concerned, my workspace is not needed anymore. It was just a proof of concept that will be replaced by drupal soon and no work is done on this anymore (at least by me).

[brevilo]

Thanks for the update Christian! I'll leave this to Rom to decide.

[romw]

Tags and branches 3 years or older I'm not all that worried about.

As far as Christian branch is concerned, the path of least resistance is to leave it as it. If we need it, we can go get it out of SVN.

[brevilo]

Ok, let's drop Christian's workspace. However, we already added the other old branches and tags on purpose, why should we exclude those? The problem is, you'll only miss them when you need them, and then it'll be too late. I'd like to understand first why Nicolas excluded them in the first place. To me it seems is if he just didn't have the time to look into their details... Since he seems available again, we should ask him for details.

[romw]

IIRC, prior to the SVN migration we had a different naming scheme for branches and tags and so they wouldn't be picked up by the expressions already defined.

I'm not sure it much matters anyway. I wouldn't expect to be able to build and of the the CVS related commits anyway. Files were typically deleted by deleting the diff file CVS used for tracking changes. Most of those branches and tags would fail to build because of missing files.

One of the main selling points for SVN was that each branch/tag wouldn't be affected by refactoring.

[brevilo]

Ok, I think I agree with you to ignore those branches and tags, but let's ask Nicolas about this as well because he seemed to indicate he wanted to actually convert those things as well, just "later".