Over the last year or so, SourceForge staff have developed a new version of their software-hosting software called Allura which they believe has long since been ready for prime time. They also would like to withdraw the old version of their software-hosting software so they don't have to maintain it any more. Thus, they are strongly encouraging all SourceForge projects to convert to the new Allura form of the SourceForge site software by the "end of Q1" which I interpret to mean March 31st.
Accordingly I have converted a number of small SF projects and checked the results. All seems well with those projects. The principal effect you see from the conversion is a new svn source-code browser and a new svn repository at a different location from the old repository. I have implemented a script (scripts/compare_svn_repos) that checks that the detailed checked-out directory trees are identical between the old and Allura svn repos for a sample of typically 100 different revisions. That script also checks that for the latest revision the log files (including all commit messages for all historical commits) produced by the svn log --verbose command are identical between the old and new repos. Those svn checks for 5 different projects of mine that have already been converted to Allura showed no svn issues. Accordingly, I plan to convert the PLplot project to the Allura form of SourceForge site software starting tomorrow (Friday) morning followed up by running the svn checking script to make sure all is well with the new svn repo. I will let you know if/when that process has been satisfactorily completed. The principal effect you should see is a new svn source-code browser and a new web address for the svn repo. So those following, e.g., the svn trunk version of PLplot will be required to do a fresh checkout using the new repo address (which I will publish here tomorrow when the conversion and svn repo checking process is complete). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
