On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:04:51PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > place to host our source repository might be a good idea. Am I the only > > one who thinks it would be a good idea to try to find a more reliable > > hosting party? Note moving to another hosting party does not mean > > switching to Git per se. > > No, but if we're going to change repo hosting anyway the additional overhead > of changing VCSes is much more tolerable by comparison. Better one clean > break than two traumas.
True, however I want to consider moving even if we decide not to move to Git. > On the other hand, one of the things that experience tells me is that > a Wesnoth migration would be a huge, messy project. The sheer size > of the repo would produce a scale problem in itself - a full download of > all branches runs my development machine out of disk space! I assume that is before you do a git repacking operation. Our git-svn repo is less than 2 GB and AFAIK only misses the website branch. > This doesn't mean it can't be done. It does mean it can't be done > *quickly*. But we probably want to wait until I ship reposurgeon 2.0 > anyway; I'm still chasing some bugs in the svn support. Haven't looked at reposurgeon yet, but if that tool can make it easier the better :-) > > If we decide to move, do we only want to move the source repository or > > also the bug-tracker and mailing lists? I haven't investigated whether > > or not it's possible to export our bug-tracker's contents. > > I have written a tool that can scrape the GNA bugtracker. The problem isn't > export but import - loading it into anywhere else. It is probably not > yet feasible to move the tracker. True, but at least having an export means you have the data. Being able to import it somewhere else would be even better. Of course it's also possible to refer to the GNA bugs, we did that with several Savannah issues. > However, I think we should probably begin preparing for a move. Gna > is understaffed and undermaintained, and the Gna codebase is creaking > and old. I would feel much more secure if the repo were migrated to > somewhere like github or gitorious. Thanks for confirming my suspicion about GNA. At the FOSDEM we mainly considering Github and Sourceforge. -- Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
