Dear hackers,
Here is a MEP with a concrete proposal to migrate the infrastructure for
Mozart development, including the migration of the source repository
from CVS to SVN. The idea is to administrate Mozart's infrastructure
with a Gforge system hosted at UCL, Belgium. There is already a test
project named Mozart-Test1 available at
http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/scm/?group_id=12
You can find more details in the MEP. We have done some tests already
and everything looks OK. People from Colombia have also been able to
make some changes in the repository related to GeOz project. Please,
feel free to test the system.
Comments on the MEP draft are welcome
cheers
Boriss and Guido.
MEP: XXX
Title: Migration of the infrastructure for Mozart development
Author: Boriss Mejias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guido Tack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 12-Sep-2006
Post-History:
Abstract
========
The purpose of this MEP is to start the migration of the infrastructure for
Mozart development from its current host in Saarbrücken to a more open
administration platform with a better version control system. The goal is to
host the Mozart repository in a Gforge platform [#Gforge]_ , providing support
for mailing lists and a bug-tracking system. The version control system will
move from CVS to Subversion (SVN) [#SVN]_ . This MEP is not meant to migrate
the website or mail server to a new server.
Motivation
==========
One of the main goals of the new Mozart Governance System was to open the
development of Mozart to external contributors. Unfortunately, the current
administration scheme does not help to make things more fluid. CVS accounts are
connected to machine accounts at Programming Systems Lab, Universität des
Saarlandes.
It has been discussed already in the hackers mailing list that the
infrastructure for Mozart development should move away from Saarbrücken
[#Discussion]_ , and this is a proposal to solve that problem.
The Gforge platform, hosted at the Université catholique de Louvain, provides a
convenient way to administrate accounts for developers, mailing list,
bug-tracking systems, discussion forums and web pages. Currently, there is a
test project called Mozart-Test1 that can be found at
http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/scm/?group_id=12 . Over there one can browse the
subversion repository created from a snapshot taken before the release of
Mozart-1.3.2. Other features of the system are accessible from that page too.
Background
==========
Team
----
The migration will be taken over by Boriss Mejias and Guido Tack. After the
migration, one or more administrators must be designated to carry on with the
administration of the project. The migration of the bug-tracking system will
require contribution from the community.
Activities
----------
* While the MEP is being discussed and voted, hackers can test the current
Mozart-Test1 project [#Test1]_ .
* Once the MEP is accepted, the Mozart project will be created at Gforge hosted
at Université catholique de Louvain.
* Freeze the current CVS repository. An equivalent SVN repository is created
and moved to Gforge.
* Developers create accounts in Gforge and they are granted permissions to work
on the project.
* Mailing lists are created for the project migrating all subscribed persons.
* There seems to be no way to automatically migrate the bug-tracking system. In
order to do that, we will require the contribution of the community to migrate
the open reports to the new bug-tracking system.
Backwards Compatibility
=======================
The migration from CVS to SVN will keep the whole history of development, as it
can be seen in the Mozart-Test1 project. The mailing list archives will also be
migrated to the new host. The migration of the bug-tracking system will take
some time. If there are not enough volunteers who migrate the bug entries, we
may have to decide to not migrate closed bug-reports. In this case, a read-only
archive of the current bug tracking system could be kept.
References
=========
.. [#Gforge] Gforge at UCL http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be
.. [#SVN] Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/
.. [#Discussion] Mozart-hackers archives
http://www.mozart-oz.org/pipermail/mozart-hackers/2006/002621.html
.. [#Test1] Mozart-Test1 project http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/scm/?group_id=12
Copyright
=========
This document has been placed in the public domain.
Votes
=====
::
Raphaël Collet []
Denys Duchier []
Seif Haridi []
Torbjörn Lager []
Konstantin Popov []
Camilo Rueda []
Gert Smolka []
Peter Van Roy []
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