Goodbye, Sourceforge!

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Sun May 31 19:47:35 CEST 2015


I'm also on with keeping svn as the VCS of record to make the transition
easier. As much as is prefer git,I don't have the energy to drive that
conversion.

A different official source for the repo is all that's needed, IMO.

Thanks
-Ben

On Sun, May 31, 2015, 6:45 PM Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 31.05.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> > Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
> >> http://helb.github.io/goodbye-sourceforge/
> >>
> >> Shall we move our code?
> >
> > If what's written in the referenced information, why not.
> > However, it's not such an easy transition mgar and scm wise.
> > Have we the resources to make such a transition?
>
> Well, the initial reason for using SourceForge as SVN repo was from the
> experience with
> Blastwave taking down the repo. I don't think it is reasonable to believe
> this is a
> problem any more. Hosting an SVN repo is not that hard and it would be
> good to integrate
> that into our existing Trac. As we have raw access to the repo the
> transition for
> users should be as easy as an "svn switch". Additionally, I don't think we
> are in any
> hurry, we could also discuss moving to another hoster. Switching the VC
> (e.g. to Git) is
> a completely different issue I would like to keep out of the discussion
> for now.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>   -- Dago
>
>
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