Hi all, I think it's time we began to develop an official plan for the transition. Solomon and I have reached a consensus on the following points (discussed on IRC):
* General hosting: Solomon will self-host and administer all migrated services, which will all be contained within a VM or similar. Trusted volunteers will have root access to the infrastructure to reduce his workload and speed turnaround times. Periodic backups will be stored by trusted volunteers to ensure continuity. * Web site: Continue as-is. * Wiki: Continue as-is with Foswiki, but with the option of migrating to a new wiki platform in the future. * Forums: Undecided. Options are: 1) Create a static mirror of the current state of forums.rockbox.org, and make it accessible/searchable somewhere. (Perhaps we can offload this to archive.org?) Set up redirects on the current subdomain to point to the archived version, thus preserving old URLs. Stand up a fresh forum site using something modern, supported, and accepted by the open source community (e.g. Discourse) at a new subdomain, e.g. community.rockbox.org. 2) Upgrade SMF to newest version and continue as-is. * Themes/Translate: Continue as-is, perhaps on separate infrastructure (as these deal with user-created content). * Code hosting: Continue as-is with our current Gerrit setup and Github mirror. This allows us to avoid migrating existing patch sets to GH pull requests (non-trivial), and to maintain the current integration of Gerrit with our current build system. The Github mirror will serve as a backup to ensure the continued availability of code. * Build system: Continue as-is with new build master. The current system works well enough and is accepted by developers. Migration to a mainstream CI system would be excessively complex with little to gain. * Issue tracking: Continue using Flyspray, updated to the current version. Solomon has proposed closing old issues while we're at it, but this is secondary. Overall this is a very conservative approach to the transition which avoids major rewrites and largely preserves things as they are -- we simply do not have the manpower to undertake anything more complex. In the meantime, I propose that we appoint Solomon as the official transition manager so he can act on behalf of the community and obtain access to the current Haxx servers and data. Thoughts? -- Franklin
