Concerns: qooxdoo-contrib commiters and users of contributions
Hi all,
SourceForge is pushing out its new "Allura" hosting platform, so we need
to migrate our existing SF projects. We will start migrating the
*qooxdoo-contrib* project coming
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, 15.00 CET
I hope this gives everybody enough time to prepare. Mind that SF queues
upgrade requests so that the actual changes might commence at some later
point in time. I don't know if and how project members would be able to
tell if the upgrade is going on. During the process the project might be
inaccessible. Please try to avoid any modifications during that time.
Here is a list of how the various aspects of the project are affected
(according to SF docs).
Will be affected by the upgrade:
Meta-data (name, description, ...)
SVN repository
qooxdoo-contrib-commit mailing list (supposedly only web interface,
not functionality)
Will work unchanged:
Project summary page
File releases and download stats
IMPORTANT: SVN Repository URL
With the upgrade the URL to the SVN repository (currently
https://qooxdoo-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qooxdoo-contrib)
WILL CHANGE, and all developers (i.e. people that can commit to
qooxdoo-contrib) will receive an email notification with the new URL
after the upgrade has finished. You will need to change the
corresponding setting in your local SVN checkout [1], or create a new
checkout.
IMPORTANT-2: This will also affect using contrib:// libraries in qooxdoo
projects
Accessing contributions in a project (with a "contrib://..." config key)
WILL STOP WORKING as the repository URL needs to be adapted in the
Generator as well. We'll be providing a patch for that, but need to test
that ourselves after the upgrade, so there might be some delay.
For *existing* projects a workaround for the latter issue is to change
the "contrib://..." URL in your config.json into a regular file path
pointing to a local copy of the contribution. You can use the copy that
has been downloaded automatically with earlier builds of your project,
but move it away from the cache directory so it doesn't get deleted with
a 'generate.py distclean' (Use a 'generate.py info' to find the download
directory on your system). There is also the "Download GNU tarball"
facility of the old ViewVC interface for each contribution (e.g.
http://qooxdoo-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/qooxdoo-contrib/trunk/qooxdoo-contrib/UploadMgr/trunk/
and look for "Download GNU tarball") to obtain a local copy of a
contribution.
Adding a *new* contrib to your project after the SF upgrade will only
work after applying the Generator patch.
Once this upgrade is accomplished we'll be addressing the migration of
the SF 'qooxdoo' project.
Cheers,
Thomas
[1] In the root of your working copy, 'svn switch --relocate <old URL>
<new URL>' should do the trick.
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