Re: SF Migration Update

Toby Collett <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Nov 2016 08:17:34 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.science.robotics.playerstage
Message-ID <CAOWjwvA+DSfPEDi4HzFJp3_8A9Ox34bc10PV_zzmVYPVxAvPsA@mail.gmail.com>
This should be the latest code,
https://github.com/playerproject/player

- Toby

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 at 05:49 Fred Labrosse <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> More than a year later, I'm trying to get the latest player, and I don't
> know where from.  The last message about that seems to indicate that the
> move from SF to github has been done, but I can't find it.  Searching
> for player on google or github is not very useful!
>
> Any pointer please?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fred
>
> PS. So far I have used my SF (svn) version that I carry from computer to
> computer, with my mods in, but tried to get a fresh copy with perhaps
> some updates.
>
> On 28/06/15 17:16, Rich Mattes wrote:
> > OK it's done, following the instructions at [1]. If you've got a fork of
> > the repository, you'll either need to delete and re-fork it, or try to
> > sync your fork's history to the new history upstream.  And your local
> > clones of the repositories will need to be fixed as well.
> >
> > As far as patches go, pull requests like the one for the swig fixes are
> > a good way to submit changes.  Bascially, create a branch in your local
> > repository for a new feature, and once you're happy push that branch to
> > your forked github repository and open a pull request.  You can also get
> > text diffs using the 'git diff' and 'git format-patch' commands.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure github also lets you check out repositories through svn
> > and interact with them that way, but I've never tried it.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > [1] https://help.github.com/articles/changing-author-info/
> >
> >> Hi Rich and all,
> >>
> >> Great to see movement!
> >>
> >> I have never really used github and the like (I have stayed with CVS
> for very long and then moved to svn and have stayed with it since…).
> >>
> >> I guess this change means that we will have to create new “working
> copies” (probably not the correct term in github world) and merge our mods
> into it from the SF working copy?  Correct?
> >>
> >> Then I’ll have to figure out how to create patches in the github world.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
> >>> On 27 Jun 2015, at 18:03, Rich Mattes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Quick progress report on the SF -> Github migration effort.
> >>>
> >>> The Player repository, as well as the Papers and Website repositories,
> >>> have been exported from SVN and uploaded to github.  There is one snag
> -
> >>> some of the email addresses in the author file were wrong when I
> >>> exported the Player code, and I didn't catch it until after I pushed it
> >>> to github.  Fixing that error means re-writing the git history and
> force
> >>> pushing over top of the exisitng repository.  This is not great, but
> >>> since the repository hasn't really been advertised yet I'm going to
> just
> >>> push the fixed history and get it over with.  Any forked repositories
> >>> and clones will have to fetch the new history and do similar.  I think
> >>> there's only one fork at the moment (Kevin's) so the impact should be
> >>> small.  If nobody has any issues with this, I'll do it this weekend.
> >>>
> >>> I checked the bug and patch trackers on Sourceforge, and there aren't
> >>> many open issues left for Player.  It looks like it's easy enough to
> >>> import the issues to github[1].  I'll run the import script and then
> >>> triage any remaining issues (there are a few that belong to Stage and
> >>> Gazebo that won't make sense in the new Player-only tracker.)
> >>>
> >>> I haven't made much headway on the site/documentation issues, other
> than
> >>> learning how ReadTheDocs and sphinx work.  That means there's still a
> >>> few ways the site could go:
> >>> 1. host on github, combine site and wiki, re-write site using Jekyll
> >>> (seems like a blog platform, maybe not a good fit)
> >>> 2. host on github, combine site and wiki, re-write site using Doxygen
> or
> >>> sphinx & import generated html
> >>> 3. host on ReadTheDocs, combine site and wiki, re-write site using
> sphinx
> >>> 4. host privately, keep site and wiki as-is
> >>> 5. host privately, merge site into wiki, host wiki
> >>> 6. host privately, re-write site/wiki however we want
> >>>
> >>> I do like the idea of combining the site and the wiki, as I always felt
> >>> having both was a bit redundant.  In the past I was starting to move
> the
> >>> FAQ and tutorials from the static site to the wiki, so that there was
> >>> less overlap and so they could be improved by anyone.  Unfortunately
> >>> re-writing the site will complicate any redirecting from the SF hosting
> >>> location.  I am leaning towards option 2, but would like to hear if
> >>> anyone has any other opinions.
> >>>
> >>> Mailing lists are tricky.  It's possible to export the mailing SF list
> >>> history from mailman.  We could start a new pair of mailing lists at
> >>> google groups, and there's a hacky way to import the existing history
> >>> there[2].  If we go the self-hosting route, we could set up our own
> >>> mailman instance and import the entire history.  I think google groups
> >>> would be easiest.
> >>>
> >>> So next steps are:
> >>> - Push updated Player history with corrected email addresses
> >>> - Export SF bug tracker info, import issues to github
> >>> - Determine hosting solution for site and mailing list
> >>>     - Import/Export mailing lists
> >>>     - Merge site & wiki, host combined site
> >>> - Announce migration and new site
> >>>
> >>> Rich
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://github.com/cmungall/gosf2github
> >>> [2] https://github.com/wojdyr/fityk/wiki/MigrationToGoogleGroups
> >>>
> >>>
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