The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code + management system from CVS to Subversion. At this + point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the + base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication + system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on + a continuous basis.
+ +People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution + network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be + interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to + maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for + at least the support lifetime of all existing "stable" + branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made + available in their usual CVS locations.
+ +We expect to make our Subversion based source tree and other + supporting infrastructure public soon. There will be new + mailing lists to subscribe to if you wish to receive Subversion + commit notifications.
+ +Our ports, doc and www trees are not affected at this time. A + separate decision will be made regarding those CVS repositories + soon.
+ +Many people have contributed to the effort, but we wish + to thank Michael Haggerty and the cvs2svn project developers + for their assistance with cvs2svn. Peter Wemm spent several weeks + of Yahoo!'s time repairing + the CVS tree, preparing for and performing the conversion, and + the configuration of the Subversion infrastructure. Yahoo! + donated the server hardware.
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