Re: sourceforge miseries

I already have a nice git mirror on GitHub, if you need that for conversion.

Sam Steingold <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 9. Apr. 2018, 23:07:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> > * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2018-04-09 22:49:22 +0200]:
> >
> >> At any rate, do you also want to move the bug tracker? mailing list?
> >
> > Not at the moment.
> >
> > For the mailing lists, such a move can be considered later.
> > Advertisements in a mail footer are silly.
> >
> > For the bug tracker, sourceforge is currently OK (now that we have
> > learned how to use ``` ... ``` and `...`).
>
> Note that such a change is fairly expensive - our sources and docs are
> littered with bug tracker and mailing list URLs.
>
> When they upgraded the bugtracker, it was a matter of a relatively easy
> - but time consuming - editing to fix that.
> When gmane http access went down, I had to jump though some ugly hoops
> to fix the links (see clisp/emacs/misc.el)
>
> I shudder at the thought of what lays ahead ;-)
>
> >> Yeah, but that bug tracker sucks big time.
> >> Even SF is better.
> >
> > The rich text functionality in savannah's tracker is a bit poor, yes. On
> > the other hand, I like the categorization / sorting interface.
>
> gitlab/github uses tags, which is more flexible, I think.
>
> Note that savannah is based on an early version of sourceforge (warts
> and all).
>
> During the SF bugtracker upgrade they renamed "category" to "milestone"
> instead of tag, with pretty funny results.
>
> >> I am not too familiar with gitlab, but its tracker appears to be more
> >> modern.
> >
> > Surely everything Gitlab has is modern. The worry I have with Gitlab
> > is whether it will remain easy-to-use and easy-to-administrate 10
> > years from now.
>
> We used SF or 18 years.
> I am sure that in 10 years we will have to switch no matter what we
> chose now (
> https://thetyee.ca/Views/2004/03/24/Planning_Six_Centuries_Ahead/).
>
> Thanks.
>
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