Re: [argouml-dev] ArgoUML and GitHub

I have cloned locally and then pushed to git the svn repository and it=20
has take a lot of time 8 months ago. It's here :=20
https://github.com/rastaman/argouml-maven (with some additions for maven=20
but this part is a work in progress).

Also toolbar and a few other projects should be migrated for the things=20
to work.

Best regards,
Ludo (aka [email protected])

Le 26/05/2015 14:27, Bob Tarling a =C3=A9crit :
> I have nothing to add that isn't already stated regarding the effort=20
> here but I would +1 a move from SVN to GIT.
>
> Regards
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On 21 May 2015 at 18:02, Tom Morris <[email protected]=20
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     This is a non-trivial task.  There are actually over 60 (!) repos
>     with hundreds of mailing lists and thousands of
>     contributors/followers plus 15 years (!) of history.
>     http://www.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectList?type=3DProjects&&field=3DP=
rojectName&matchValue=3Dargo&matchType=3Dcontains&mode=3DFiltered&pageNum=
=3D2&itemsPerPage=3D50
>
>     Having said that Tigris has long been marginalized by the other
>     forges and since it stopped accepting new projects last year, it's
>     probably just a matter of time before it closes.
>
>     There are actually three separate but related decisions to be made:
>
>     1. Choice of SCM - SVN, git, Mercurial (hg)
>     2. Choice of forge - Github, Bitbucket, Sourceforge, etc
>     3. Choice of ancilliary tools - mailing lists, issue tracker,
>     wiki, etc (this usually defaults to whatever is provided by the
>     forge, but doesn't have to)
>     4. If the lists of committers is going to be changed, that's
>     another separate decision
>
>     I don't think there's any question that git or hg would be better
>     than SVN.  I mostly use git, but I know hg has its supporters.
>     Github is git only, but Bitbucket and Sourceforge give the option
>     of choosing Mercurial.
>
>     I use Github for other projects and, while it's certainly popular,
>     it's not without its weaknesses.  The issue tracker in particular
>     is pretty weak and it'd be worth considering whether to use Jira
>     or some other alternative instead.
>
>     Transitioning mailing lists will be eased to some degree by the
>     fact that their archived in MarkMail and the new lists could just
>     be added to the current archives, but the thousands of subscribers
>     would need to resubscribe (or not).
>
>     Choosing not to migrate the issues would mean abandoning a pretty
>     significant piece of the project history.  That's not a decision
>     to be made lightly.  I've successfully used my tweaked version of
>     this script to migrate issues to Github:
>     https://github.com/arthur-debert/google-code-issues-migrator/pull/18
>      and Tigris has a way to dump all issues in XML e.g.
>     http://argoeclipse.tigris.org/issues/xml.cgi
>
>     Although Github has a nice easy to use SVN importer (you just give
>     it a URL), it can't deal with the ArgoEclipse SVN repo on Tigris,
>     so almost certainly won't be able to deal with the main repo which
>     is many times larger and more complex, so the migration will need
>     to be done using svn2git locally (probably followed by a bunch of
>     handtweaking/pruning to get rid of large binaries, etc).
>
>     I'm supportive of migrating (although I'm sure there are some that
>     will be nostalgic for Tigris since ArgoUML has been hosted there
>     for 15 years
>     <https://tigrisdotorg.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/and-the-results-are-in=
/>),
>     but you shouldn't underestimate how much work it'll be.
>
>     Tom
>
>     On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Christian Heinrich
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I just raised this question in another e-mail to this list but
>         I think a
>         dedicated thread might be good. I quickly used my mail client
>         to search
>         for this topic but I couldn't find anythin; so bare with me if I'=
m
>         mistaken.
>
>         GitHub has clearly become one of the most popular platforms for
>         collaboration on Open Source projects; I dare say, it's todays
>         most
>         popular platform.
>
>         Many projects have moved there and use the infrastructure plus
>         the vast
>         user base to improve their projects.
>
>         A quick search for "ArgoUML" yields that there are currently 27
>         repositories on GitHub that deal with Argo. (Link:
>         https://github.com/search?p=3D1&q=3Dargouml&type=3DRepositories&u=
tf8=3D%E2%9C%93
>         )
>
>
>         I'm not saying that by moving there thousands of people will
>         currently
>         join ArgoUML, but I think that the barrier will be
>         significantly lower:
>
>         - One can easily fork the project and commit changes; signing
>         up on
>         tigris.org <http://tigris.org> is not necessary and might hold
>         some people back from
>           contributing a quick patch.
>
>         - Issue tracker is nicely integrated into the interface;
>         discussion on
>           Pull Requests possible.
>
>         - Contributing made simple: A simple click will create a pull
>         request
>           and hence notify the ArgoUML team of a new feature someone
>         might have
>           developed.
>
>         - Other tools support GitHub, such as travis-ci.org
>         <http://travis-ci.org>, which might be
>           interesting for the CI issue we're currently having.
>
>         - One can easily use the Git workflow, no SVN needed.
>
>         - Use GitHub pages to build a decent website.
>
>
>
>         Personally, I'd like to see ArgoUML on GitHub but I haven't
>         been very
>         active for more than 6 years now (I still want to say a quick "Hi
>         Thomas!").
>
>
>         I'm curious what you think.
>
>         Best regards
>         Christian
>
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