QGIS recently switched from SVN to Git and from OSGeo to Github. They also 
migrated their bug tracker from Trac to Redmine.

A couple of people were involved in the migration. You might want to ask Tim 
Sutton about what problems they encountered.

Kind regards,

Volker

Am Samstag, 9. Juli 2011, 22:07:27 schrieb Sean Gillies:
> Hi all,
> 
> My server that hosts the gispython.org site and services runs on
> Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, which has reached its end of life. I'm facing a
> fair amount of work in migrating my personal stuff, and more in
> migrating the various code repositories and trac instances that we've
> been sharing. I invite you to question with me whether migrating the
> gispython.org Subversion repos and Trac instances and databases is
> worth the effort.
> 
> When Kai and I started collaborating in 2005, we agreed that
> Sourceforge wasn't for us. There weren't any clear alternatives at the
> time (this was before OSGeo and long before Bitbucket and GitHub) and
> I was fired up to learn how to deploy Subversion, so we set up our own
> development infrastructure. Now, of course, there are many excellent
> alternatives to Sourceforge with features that the gispython.org
> infrastructure can't match. I'm thinking specifically of GitHub's fork
> and merge buttons, and Gists. Whether you agree with them or not, to
> an increasingly large crowd of programmers, it doesn't count if it's
> not on GitHub (or Bitbucket or Google Code if you will). The harder I
> look at migrating the gispython.org stuff, the more I think that all
> we get for the price of migration is just more obscurity,
> marginalization, and eventual stagnation of the projects.
> 
> Howard has taken the Spatialindex and Rtree projects to GitHub.
> Shapely is already there. The various zgeo.* packages I propose to
> either move to the Pleiades SVN or merge into Plone's collective.geo.
> The only other active and therefore seriously impacted project is
> OWSLib. Dear OWSLib developers: would you be willing to take the
> project to Google Code or OSGeo (to keep SVN) or to GitHub or
> Bitbucket (necessarily switching RCS) in the next month or so?

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