On 17/02/2014 20:05, Joe Taylor wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Joe,
An impending issue for us to ponder:
BerliOS has announced that their hosting service for open-source
projects like ours will end on April 30 of this year.
We must consider the available options for moving the WSJT project
elsewhere.
BerliOS is cooperating with SourceForge to (supposedly) make migration
there relatively painless. I'm not a SourceForge fan -- there's far
too much extraneous "noise" (read: Advertising) on their web pages,
which anyway seem to me to be poorly designed and organized.
Nevertheless, SourceForge *may* be our best option. We don't use the
repository web site as the place most users go for downloads -- I've
always kept the WSJT Home Page elsewhere, and it has no annoying
pollution from advertising. Those of us who contribute to source code
and documentation use the repository almost entitrely for checkouts
and commits, so we seldom need to look at the web pages. In that
case, SourceForge may not be too objectionable.
With that said, I'm certainly not an expert on these things. Does
anyone know of an alternative to SourceForge that might be better?
Any other opinions or advice?
The SourceForge migration does look attractive since it is the
recommended path and has tools in place to migrate the whole site. There
are fairly simple instructions for moving the individual components to
other hosts so other destinations are relatively easy too. One of the
most important aspects is the migration of the mailing lists so a host
that uses 'mailman' is important; making the migration of the ML
archives trivial.
SourceForge does have some very popular projects on board which might
increase its lifespan.
I see some are suggesting a switch to a different VCS, this too has
merits and git certainly has many advantages over Subversion. I would
not recommend a switch in VCS at the same time as a switch in project
host, Subversion is easier to understand and use than git and developers
who wish to can use git locally using the git-svn tools without having
to migrate the whole VCS for everyone. The biggest advantage of a simple
switch to another Subversion host is that work in progress can be
switched (svn relocate) easily to the new repository whereas a VCS
switch would require all developers to check in all outstanding work in
a coordinated fashion or face a complex migration of their work in progress.
-- Joe, K1JT
Just my 2p
Bill
G4WJS.
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