Re: [Freedos-devel] Migrating repositories to the Gitlab project group

[Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel]

> Am 06.07.2024 um 16:40 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel 
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
> 
> However, both FD-NLS and FDOS existed before the Gitlab FreeDOS group. It is 
> asking a lot of any contributor to those projects to move to a new location. 
> Maybe someday they could be brought under the same umbrella. But for now, it 
> is easier to just keep them where they are. 

Starting another topic for this...

I have no problems with migrating at least the FDISK repository over to the 
Gitlab project group, if the others agree. Because now it causes significant 
double work when doing a release.

As it is now, two completely different repositories exist. The one at Github 
contains the complete development commit log, while the commit log at Gitlab is 
mainly about the release stuff. After doing a release on Github, I have to 
incorporate all the changes from the Github repo into the Gitlab repo. 

When migrating, I would not want to loose the development commit log. I am not 
sure how to handle this. Doing it in a "simple" way would be to archive the 
current Gitlab FDISK project, create a new one and to push the Github project 
data into it. Then doing some restructuring so that this repository fits within 
the structure required by the RBE. We would loose the older binaries of the 
Gitlab repository in this process, because the one at Github does not contain 
them. But these would still be alive in an archived version of the repo. So 
perhaps we should establish some form of "graveyard" under the Gitlab project 
group, where this kind of repository lives.

Bernd



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