Re: IMPORTANT: It's time to migrate from CVS (your input needed)

On 16 October 2017 at 06:17, Robert Eden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lets try and keep the discussion moving..
>
> I think we have consensus on moving to git.

Apologies for not responding sooner - I was hoping to hear from more
developers. That said:

> So Geoff and Gary's preference is to move off SF.   Nick, what are your
> thoughts?  From a technical standpoint, is one easier than another?

I would migrate to git/github. I would like to move as much away from
sourceforge as possible.

In 2017 no-one migrates from CVS to SVN. Current FOSS developers
expect git/hg...

> I'm not that familiar with github, other than as a repository... should we
> migrate things other than the repository?

I'm in full agreement with Jan:

>     bug tracker

yes - github issues

>     release distribution

yes - github releases

>     mailing lists

yes and no - google groups would be a good replacement, but the lists
are so low-traffic it might make sense to keep them on SF.

>     xmltv.org wiki (currently hosted by me, not SF)

it makes sense to me to use the github wiki - keeping everything
project related (as far as possible) in one location means only
needing one set of credentials to maintain things.

> Which github plan?   I'm sure Schedules Direct would be willing to cover a
> reasonable subscription.

Free is fine for our use case - being a FOSS project with no need for
private repos.

> I'm not familiar with github other than accessing a few repositories... I'll
> read up on it, but I'm sure there are others on the list with more
> experience.

As with git, it is quick to get up to speed with to use in everyday
projects. Github has very good user documentation and a very large
community around it.

I'd guess many of our developers have accounts already, but those that
don't will need to create one to be able to continue to maintain their
grabbers.

As mentioned in my opening message, I already have a full git mirror
of the CVS codebase generated via git-cvsimport and an authors
mapping, so almost all of the code migration work is ready.

> Personally, I want to change as little as possible.  I'm aware of the SF
> history, but also understand they've been generous.

I understand this POV. It's just a shame that in recent years they
have done so much to leave a bad taste in a lot of old SF users'
mouths.

Cheers,
Nick

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