A few points:
1. I'm not sure how valuable svn history is, whether you take it to
git or svn. branches/ and tags/ are a complete mess, for example,
and it would probably be better to clean that stuff up.
2. git vs. svn - I think more important is how the version control
interacts with e.g. the bug tracker (presumably forge Bugzilla is
also going away?). E.g., at Gna.org you can do svn commits which
reference bug #123123 (or whatever) and that commit is
automatically annotated on the bug - other systems do similar things
3. it's still not entirely clear to me how Novell re-uses iFolder
internally, and to what degree the commercial iFolder code is kept
in a separate revision control system. This is a pretty major
issue, especially if people want to move to git.
4. previous notes people have made about read-only access to mailing
list archives, bug tracker, etc. etc. should be taken into
consideration. Novell Forge is a barrier to participation.
Cheers
Alex.
On 11/11/09 15:35, Ravi Kumar wrote:
Hi,
As most of you are aware, Novell Forge project hosting will be
discontinued from this December. This means that we need to find a new
home for simias and iFolder project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
link has a very good comparison of major source hosting facilities. We
would need your opinion on the same.
Now that we are migrating to a new home we are even thinking of either
to stay with SVN or move to GIT. I have started a survey and request
developers to please vote.
http://community.ifolder.com/ssf/a/do?p_name=ss_forum&p_action=1&binderId=2458&action=view_folder_entry&entryId=4008
<http://community.ifolder.com/ssf/a/do?p_name=ss_forum&p_action=1&binderId=2458&action=view_folder_entry&entryId=4008>
Let me know if you are not able to access the survey. You need to
LOGIN to community.ifolder.com and then try to Vote.
Current plan is to :
*Migrate all branches from current tree(s).
*Preserve svn history
*Follow the same project structure
*The new server should have the below features
* Code hosting [ No space limitation such as
1GB........... ]
* Web hosting
* Mailing list
* Shell access [ Admin / Maintainer ]
We are looking in to few options such as
*Launchpad
*BerliOS
*Gitorious
*Github
*Sourceforge
Please do pitch in your concerns . We can have another poll if required.
ravi
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