... but they grind exceedingly fine

2014-01-11 16:09:47 -0500

The "ThokTober" effort is showing glorious levels of scope creep and schedule slip. This post is still only going to the "pre-production" version of the site, so it doesn't count towards the live publication milestone, but in the mean time I've

• gathered up all of the non-versioned files, the "slightly-versioned" files (given foo and foo~ and their datestamps, that counts as at just about the least plausible amount of history to attempt to preserve) and the individually versioned files (ad-hoc RCS use on files that were served up directly, rather than through cgiweb) and fed them all through cvs2git producing an epic "blob" that serves as the starting point for the new git-based world...
• figured out how to use git rebase to glue that 18-year "blob" on to the short-term ikiwiki prototype such that they look like a continuous stream of "history"...
• hunted down the remaining microsites and planned to isolate them and not include them in the broader project...
• populated two prototype "House Wiki" sites with real information (in the process, learning how to manage these sites together.)

All in all I've made a lot of progress, it's just that the direction of that progress hasn't been towards the original goal of "publishing my writing again." Still, much was learned, and this post should contribute to confirming that the machinery still works after the above bits of git churn...