Hi, I started a discussion with some Savannah Hackers about migrating Savannah to FusionForge.
Context: the Savane project didn't find a new maintainer after I progressively withdrew from it, and I think it may be good thing to officially deprecate Savane in favor of something else. It's not news - for the past 2 years a guy had some wish to mentor a GSoC student to work on the stalled Python/Django rewrite (though didn't eventually), but each time I pointed it would make more sense to move to FusionForge, which was the closest active free project. And IMHO still is :) Since I'm going to work on FusionForge next year, I thought it would be a good opportunity to bite the bullet, officially deprecate Savane, and help Savannah "upgrade" to FusionForge along the way. Note that I'm not officially part of the Savannah Hackers for a couple years now, so the decision is not mine. Also they may think newer alternatives are more suitable (Redmine, Allura?). Last, this is unrelated to my work on FusionForge next year - I pointed them the opportunity to switch to a project I'd be working on, but this Savannah work would be on my personal time anyway, just like now. Anyhow, at this point of the conversation, the decision in mixed with various other issues, from finding more sysadmins for the Savannah platform, to thinking about building a separate platform from scratch. The goal of this mail is to mention this potential change, but more importantly to ask for your thoughts about such a migration from Savane to FusionForge: do you expect any high incompatibilities (that would make a migration script particularly hard)? Missing features (trackers triggered transitions comes to mind, but they aren't used much)? Architectural diverging choices (chroots maybe)? Feel free to ask me for more details on the current setup. I've been experimenting a little with FusionForge, but I'd be glad to hear what more experienced devs think about this :) Cheers! Sylvain _______________________________________________ Fusionforge-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fusionforge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusionforge-general
