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? _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
