Seconded, vss2svn is dead - long live vss2svn! ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: j...@ehardcastle.com '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' -----------------------
--- On Tue, 24/2/09, Hill, Carol <ch...@zebra.com> wrote: > From: Hill, Carol <ch...@zebra.com> > Subject: RE: Moving vss2svn to Google Code > To: "Vss2Svn Users" <vss2svn-users@lists.pumacode.org> > Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009, 3:15 PM > Thanks Toby for all the work you have put into this project. > It was a > great help to me with my conversion, as I am sure it has > been a great > help to many others. > Thanks again, > Carol > > -----Original Message----- > From: vss2svn-users-boun...@lists.pumacode.org > [mailto:vss2svn-users-boun...@lists.pumacode.org] On Behalf > Of Toby > Johnson > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:18 PM > To: Vss2Svn Users > Subject: Moving vss2svn to Google Code > > Hello everyone, > > Back when I created the PumaCode.org Trac project site, > there were (IMO) > no good, easy-to-use open source hosting sites that > supported > Subversion. SourceForge was the closest thing and their > Subversion > support was perpetually "any day now". And I was > rather less than > impressed with Tigris.org, although they may have gotten > better since > then. > > However, my involvement with this project has dropped off > and I'm no > longer interested in maintaining the PumaCode.org site. It > probably > wouldn't be as big a deal if I didn't spend so much > time fighting Wiki > spam, but now I'm faced with the prospect of upgrading > Trac to fight the > spam, permanently disabling anonymous access, or migrating > somewhere > else. > > Of these options, the last sounds like the best to me. > I'm very > impressed with Google Code's offerings; they have a > great, clean web > interface; and as a much larger-scale site they are better > at fighting > spam than I am by myself. > > So my plan at this point is to migrate to Google Code. > I've set up the > initial project site here: > http://code.google.com/p/vss2svn/ > > Luckily, the full Subversion history of the project can be > migrated > using svnsync. Unfortunately it doesn't look like > there's an easy way to > migrate the Wiki pages, and no way to migrate mailing list > history. I > can directly add everyone who is currently subscribed to > this list to > the new mailing list. > > If anyone has any opinion on this, please let me know soon > as I will > complete the migration within the next week or two. Please > email me > privately if you would prefer I don't add your email to > the new Google > Code mailing list. I'll leave the PumaCode.org project > up for the > foreseeable future, but I have already disabled anonymous > wiki edits due > to a marked increase in wiki spam lately. > > I honestly don't anticipate that this project will gain > much activity > again unless someone new decides to take an active role in > further > development, but I would still like to ensure that future > users are able > to at least easily get the source code and history. > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode. > org > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user > > - CONFIDENTIAL- > This email and any files transmitted with it are > confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you > are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, > copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email > in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply > email and then delete this email. > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user
