svn-sunset.md

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-# Main Gitlab issue
+# Overview
 
-* #768
+When CiviCRM moved from SVN to Git, the full history of code changes was not imported into Git. By that time, CiviCRM had existed for more than 5 years and had accumulated a lot of changes, but given the fast pace of the project, it was not particularly relevant to import everything.
 
-# Repos
+The SVN service was kept alive since then, but has had near 0 activity for the past 2-3 years. However, it still occupies resources on our main hosting server (`svn.civicrm.osuosl.org`, 2 GB ram VPS server), is monitored and requires regular maintenance as any server.
 
-The server `svn.civicrm.org` hosts these repos:
+Very occasionally, developers might go back to the SVN archive to check when a feature was introduced (usually by spot-checking branches or tags). The history, while not used often, still provides useful information about the history of the project.
 
-```
-# du -sm civicrm extdir hrd php quest sfschool tools
-1763    civicrm
-1       extdir
-2       hrd
-3       php
-94      quest
-11      sfschool
-168     tools
-```
+Around 2017, @xurizaemon, who did want to consult the SVN history, but not bother with using SVN, tested a full SVN to Git migration only for archival purposes. Since it seemed like a viable option to get rid of the SVN service, we then did a few test runs and eventually managed to produce a Git repository for historical purposes that had the full history and all the branches (but not tags).
 
-# Motivation
+The new repository is available on Github: https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-svn
 
-* The SVN service has near 0 activity for the past 2 years
-* @xurizaemon has done tests to migrate the SVN repo to a git repo (https://github.com/fuzionnz/civicrm-svn). It does not have the branches, but would be good enough?
-   * (_Comment_ (totten): I don't need to go back to svn often, but when I do... the flow has generally required spot-checking the tags and branches. So I really don't want to lose that info.)
-* The SVN service is still using a VM with 2 GB ram, which needs to be monitored, upgraded, backed-up, as any production VM.
+The progress was tracked in Gitlab: #768
 
 # Roadmap
 
@@ -40,4 +28,21 @@ The server `svn.civicrm.org` hosts these repos:
         * https://sourceforge.net/projects/civicrm ([import instructions](https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/SVN%20Import/))
         * http://savannah.gnu.org/ or http://savannah.nongnu.org/ ([import instructions](http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SvnImportExistingRepo/))
         * http://www.cloudforge.com/pricing ($2/mo for 2gb quota; [import instructions](https://help.cloudforge.com/hc/en-us/articles/215242503-Importing-an-Existing-Repository-into-CloudForge-Subversion))
-        * http://repositoryhosting.com/features ($6/mo; no mention of quota)
+        * http://repositoryhosting.com/features ($6/mo; no mention of quota)
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+
+# Repos
+
+The server `svn.civicrm.org` hosts these repos:
+
+```
+# du -sm civicrm extdir hrd php quest sfschool tools
+1763    civicrm
+1       extdir
+2       hrd
+3       php
+94      quest
+11      sfschool
+168     tools
+```
+
+Only `civicrm` was archived on github.
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