id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
91	reorganize egg repository to cut down working copy size	felix winkelmann		"Checking out the complete egg repository requires a considerable amount of disk space. During a discussion with ashinn, sjamaan, iraikov, zbigniew and mario, we came to the conclusion that it would be a win if one could merely check out the development sources, not the tagged copies. One possible new layout would be:

{{{
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.scm
stable/release/4/spuffy/spiffy.setup
...
dev/release/4/spiffy/1.0
dev/release/4/spiffy/1.1
...
}}}

Things to keep in mind:

 * the henrietta instances have to be updated to export from the correct URLs
 * the restructuring will invalidate all working copies and likely make it very difficult to check in uncommitted changes, so the change should be announced early enough and be done during of period in which no other repo access can take place
 * IIRC, there exists a cronjob somewhere that automaticaly converts eggdoc files - this has to be modified
 * the code in `setup-download` that installs from an svn-checkout or local tree must be changed to reflect the new layout
 * we actually will need two instances of henrietta on each egg server: one for the old layout and one for the new
 * all these changes imply that we release a adapted version of the core system once the repo has been reorganized

Some serious work waiting for us ...

"	task	closed	major		extensions	4.2.x	wontfix	repository	Mario Domenech Goulart